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When technical teams avoid confronting systemic problems

Our engineering team has this thing where we all pretend the technical debt isn't crushing us and every sprint planning meeting feels like theater where we estimate story points knowing full well we'll spend half our time fighting the legacy codebase. Everyone's burned out but we keep saying yes to new features and I don't know how to break this cycle without looking like I'm not a team player.

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Your team keeps pretending it can handle more than it really can, and you're all quietly burning out.

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