Good Enough

Adjective · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. Adequate for the actual need even if not perfect by every possible standard. In engineering culture, recognizing when something is good enough is a mark of judgment, though the phrase is also misused to excuse avoidable sloppiness.

    In plain English: Good enough to meet the real need without requiring perfection.

    Example: "The team shipped the simpler design because it was good enough for the launch goal and did not deserve another month of polishing edge cases nobody had actually observed."

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