Code Therapy
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A humorous phrase for the emotional relief or reflective comfort some people get from coding, debugging, or cleaning up software. It can refer to both healthy focused flow and the tendency to retreat into technical tasks when other problems are harder.
In plain English: A joking term for finding comfort or relief in coding.
Example: "After a week of messy meetings, refactoring the old parser felt like code therapy because at least the problems were concrete and fixable."