Critique Glossary
Browse 7 critique terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
7 Critique Terms
- Anti-Pattern
- A common but counterproductive solution pattern that tends to create more problems than it solves. In engineering culture, calling something an anti-pattern...
- Cargo Cult Science
- A term popularized by Richard Feynman for work that imitates the appearance of scientific rigor without the substance of honest testing and self-correction. In...
- Feature Factory
- A team or organization optimized to ship features continuously without enough concern for outcomes, usability, maintenance, or strategic coherence. It is...
- Meritocracy Myth
- The critique that organizations often claim pure merit-based advancement while ignoring bias, politics, and structural advantage.
- Patent Troll
- A pejorative term for an entity that acquires or asserts patents primarily to extract licensing fees or settlements rather than to build products. Startups...
- Resume Driven Development
- Building or choosing technology mainly because it looks impressive on a resume rather than because it solves the actual problem well.
- Self-Critique
- A step in which an AI system critiques its own output against a rubric, policy, or reasoning standard before revising it. Self-critique is often used in...
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