Code Democracy

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

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  1. A joking term for making coding decisions by broad group opinion rather than by clear ownership or technical authority. In engineering slang, code democracy can sound inclusive or like a recipe for slow lowest-common-denominator choices.

    In plain English: Making technical decisions by group opinion rather than clear ownership.

    Example: "The architecture review became code democracy, with ten people voting on a storage design that only two of them would actually have to operate."

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