Code Under Pressure
Phrase · Hacker Culture
Definitions
Writing or modifying code under time pressure, stress, or incident conditions. In engineering culture this phrase usually carries a warning because pressure changes judgment, testing habits, and risk tolerance.
In plain English: Coding while stressed, rushed, or under incident pressure.
Example: "They avoided live hotfixes whenever possible because code under pressure has a way of creating tomorrow's outage while solving today's one."