Evolution
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
Gradual change and adaptation over time rather than abrupt reinvention. In technology culture, evolution is often invoked to explain how products, teams, and codebases become what they are through many small shifts.
In plain English: Gradual change over time.
Example: "The platform's current shape made more sense once the team saw it as the evolution of many constraints instead of one master plan gone wrong."