Code Veteran

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

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  1. A developer with long experience in a system, stack, or engineering environment who has seen many generations of its problems and fixes. In engineering slang, code veterans often carry both cautionary history and invaluable intuition.

    In plain English: A highly experienced developer with long history in a system or codebase.

    Example: "The code veteran vetoed the shortcut immediately because he had seen the same pattern trigger two separate outage classes years earlier."

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