Comment Driven Development
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
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A joking term for the habit of producing lots of review commentary, explanatory text, or design prose without matching clarity in the actual implementation. In engineering slang, comment-driven development criticizes teams that sound organized on paper but still leave the code confused.
In plain English: Writing lots of comments or process prose without equivalent clarity in the actual code.
Example: "The RFC process was drifting toward comment driven development, with pages of polished rationale attached to changes whose actual rollback story remained undefined."