Code Pasta
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A joking term for code that has clearly been copied and pasted around, often with only partial adaptation, leaving repeated patterns, duplicated bugs, or inconsistent variable names behind. It is closely related to 'copy pasta' in developer slang.
In plain English: Copied-and-pasted code that has been reused too casually.
Example: "The auth service was full of code pasta, right down to error messages mentioning functions that didn’t exist in that repo."
Related Terms
- Copy Pasta Engineer
- Angry Coding
- Burn It Down
- Chef's Kiss Code
- Copium
- Crash and Burn
- Ctrl+C Ctrl+V
- Duck Test
- Git Good
- Hack It Till You Make It
- Hardcode
- Here Be Bugs
- Infinite Loop Slang
- JSON Everything
- Magic
- Mirror Mirror
- Nerd Rage
- Nuke
- Nuke from Orbit
- One More Fix
- Refactor Later
- Rubber Band Fix
- Smart Quotes
- Software Gore
- Sunshine Deploy
- Wheelbarrow Pattern
- YOLO Code
- Copy Pasta
- Unreachable Code Slang