Code Firefighter

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A developer who spends most of their time jumping from bug to bug, outage to outage, and emergency to emergency. In engineering slang, the code firefighter is useful in crisis but often trapped in a system that never gets enough prevention work.

    In plain English: A developer who mostly responds to urgent code problems and incidents.

    Example: "He had become the team's code firefighter, constantly stabilizing production instead of getting the quiet time needed to remove the causes."

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