Code Landmine

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A hidden dangerous condition in code that detonates only when someone steps on the right trigger. In engineering slang, code landmines are especially painful because they survive quietly through many ordinary changes before exploding.

    In plain English: A hidden dangerous bug or condition waiting to be triggered.

    Example: "The deprecated parser option was a code landmine that only blew up when one enterprise customer combined old config with a new auth mode."

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