engineering

an obvious and important problem that everyone notices but avoids discussing

a hasty, temporary solution that patches a symptom without addressing the root cause

to waste time recreating something that already exists and works well

a quick, shallow test that checks whether a system's most basic functions work at all

done rapidly and roughly, with little care for quality or polish

doing the difficult, unglamorous, hands-on work at the front line of a problem or project

a repetitive, endless cycle in which fixing one problem immediately causes or reveals another

to fix the last small problems in a plan, process, or product

the default, well-supported, happy-path way of using a system, opposed to exotic configurations

the long-term cost of choosing quick, messy solutions over careful ones