What is your view on working with technical debt? How to live with it if the code is 'spaghetti'?

Technical debt is the accumulated compromises, simplifications, or poor-quality code in a project that over time complicates development and maintenance.

How to work with it:

• Awareness: it's important to understand where and why technical debt has arisen.
• Prioritization: not everything needs to be fixed immediately; assess the impact of debt on business and development.
• Refactoring: gradually improve the code, break down complex sections, enhance readability and architecture.
• Test coverage: add automated tests to safely modify the code.
• Documentation: record the reasons and plans for debt elimination.

If the code is "vermicelli" (highly tangled, difficult to understand), then:

• Start by writing tests to capture current behavior.
• Make small, safe changes to improve structure.
• Use static analysis and profiling tools.
• Discuss with the team; it might be worth allocating time for a major refactoring.

It's important not to fear technical debt but to manage it so it doesn't become a blocking factor.