Code Grenade

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A small-looking change or hidden issue that can explode with disproportionate impact when touched. In engineering slang, a code grenade is dangerous precisely because it does not announce its blast radius clearly beforehand.

    In plain English: A deceptively small change or issue that can blow up into bigger problems.

    Example: "That one-line config tweak was a code grenade because it altered parsing defaults for every downstream service using the shared library."

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