Default Alive

Adjective Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A joking phrase for a default setting or behavior that remains active and influential longer than people expect. In engineering slang, something being 'default alive' usually explains why a supposedly retired path still shows up in production.

    In plain English: A default behavior that is still active and affecting things when people expected it not to be.

    Example: "The old auth fallback was still default alive in one region because nobody had actually flipped the final environment override after the migration."

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