Factory of Factories
Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A mocking phrase for excessive abstraction, especially when factory patterns have been layered so far that the architecture seems to produce only more factories. In engineering slang, it signals that indirection has likely outrun actual need.
In plain English: An overengineered design with too many factory abstractions stacked on each other.
Example: "The codebase had become a factory of factories, where adding a simple serializer required touching three abstraction layers before any real logic even appeared."