  Background. Technical debt (TD) has long been one of the key factors
influencing the maintainability of software products. It represents technical
compromises that sacrifice long-term software quality for potential short-term
benefits. Objective. This work is to collectively investigate the
practitioners' opinions on the various perspectives of TD from a large
collection of articles. We find the topics and latent details of each, where
the sentiments of the detected opinions are also considered. Method. For such a
purpose, we conducted a grey literature review on the articles systematically
collected from three mainstream technology forums. Furthermore, we adopted
natural language processing techniques like topic modeling and sentiment
analysis to achieve a systematic and comprehensive understanding. However, we
adopted ChatGPT to support the topic interpretation. Results. In this study,
2,213 forum posts and articles were collected, with eight main topics and 43
sub-topics identified. For each topic, we obtained the practitioners'
collective positive and negative opinions. Conclusion. We identified 8 major
topics in TD related to software development. Identified challenges by
practitioners include unclear roles and a lack of engagement. On the other
hand, active management supports collaboration and mitigates the impact of TD
on the source code.
