Code Ghost

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A mysterious leftover behavior, dead dependency, or seemingly absent piece of logic that still affects the system. In engineering slang, code ghosts are the things you swear were removed but that still manage to haunt production.

    In plain English: A mysterious leftover piece of behavior or logic that still haunts the system.

    Example: "They spent hours chasing a code ghost before discovering an old environment variable in one forgotten deploy template was still altering startup behavior."

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