# The Engineering Debt Nobody Talks About : Context Debt

DevFeed: [The Engineering Debt Nobody Talks About : Context Debt](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-engineering-debt-nobody-talks-about-context-debt-28580.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thehustlingengineer.substack.com/p/the-engineering-debt-nobody-talks>)

Author: Hemant Pandey

Published: 2026-06-24T13:50:20Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Hustling Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-hustling-engineer.md>)

Topics: [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces the idea of context debt and describes spending three hours debugging a service even though the bug itself was not especially difficult.

## Source excerpt

Last month I spent 3 hours debugging a service and the bug was not too difficult.