I feel this is the key - three years ago everyone on HN would be able to define "technical debt" and how it was bad and they hated it but had to live with it.

We've now build a machine capable of something that can't even be called "technical debt" anymore - perhaps "technical usury" or something, and we're all supposed to love it.

Most coders know that support and maintenance of code will far outlast and out weigh the effort required to build it.