Even after you did the initial work and had a specific architecture in mind, you need to continuously monitor how the system evolves and whether it still aligns with its users' needs, as those may also change during the development and lifetime of your software. Software decay, sometimes also called erosion, occurs when the implementation decisions don't correspond to the planned architecture. All such differences should be treated as technical debt.
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