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Chamath Palihapitiya on

technical debt

2 entries, 5 May 2026 to 18 Aug 2026

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    1. spoken

      Palihapitiya says a $100 billion revenue customer brings retirees out of retirement to explain COBOL code.

      “They have to go and get retirees to I swear to God, dude, this is a $100,000,000,000 a year company out of retirement to come into the office to explain what this COBOL code does.”

      5 May 2026 · Stanford AI Club · 17:21 · source · permalink
    2. posted

      Palihapitiya argues software captures reasonable decisions that drifted from operational reality not stupidity

      “@theslowtell We don’t see this. There are many decisions that had reasonable starting points but have now simply drifted from today’s operational reality. It’s now about closing the gap of where things started and what the business actually needs today.”

      18 Aug 2026 · X · source

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