managing-tech-debt
✓Help users manage technical debt strategically. Use when someone is dealing with legacy code, planning refactoring work, deciding between rewrites vs. incremental fixes, trying to get buy-in for tech debt reduction, or balancing new features with maintenance.
Installation
SKILL.md
Help the user manage technical debt strategically using insights from 18 product leaders.
Camille Fournier: "Engineers notoriously, notoriously, notoriously, massively underestimate the migration time for old system to new system. By the way, you still have to support the old system while you're working on the new system." Full rewrites are traps. Prefer incremental evolution - uplift specific components rather than starting from scratch.
Tech debt is product debt Ebi Atawodi: "Infrastructure is the product. Period. I cannot build a skyscraper on a shaky foundation. So it is your problem too - it's not for the engineer to be barging on the door." Technical debt should be owned by PMs as "product debt," not treated as an engineering-only concern. Include it in your Top 10 Problems list.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill managing-tech-debt- Source
- refoundai/lenny-skills
- Category
- >_Productivity
- Verified
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- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is managing-tech-debt?
Help users manage technical debt strategically. Use when someone is dealing with legacy code, planning refactoring work, deciding between rewrites vs. incremental fixes, trying to get buy-in for tech debt reduction, or balancing new features with maintenance. Source: refoundai/lenny-skills.
How do I install managing-tech-debt?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills --skill managing-tech-debt Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills
Details
- Category
- >_Productivity
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01