Bad Code
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A blunt, informal label for code that is hard to understand, brittle, sloppy, overcomplicated, or poorly suited to its context. In engineering culture the phrase can mean many things, so useful teams usually unpack what is actually wrong rather than stopping at the insult.
In plain English: Code that is poor in quality or hard to work with.
Example: "Calling it bad code was easy; the harder and more useful step was identifying the hidden coupling and missing tests that made it painful to change."