There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

Technical debt in software has no natural limit or "floor"—unlike physical structures that eventually collapse under their own weight, code can perpetually degrade through added complexity, indirection, and performance reduction. The author argues that metaphors like "sinking ship" are misleading because they imply an eventual breaking point, when in reality a business will fail long before code quality reaches any hypothetical limit. Without a mechanism for "bankruptcy" or reset, technical debt compounds indefinitely, creating a false sense of security that problems will eventually resolve themselves.