Infinite Recursion Slang

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

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  1. Informal talk around self-calling logic that never bottoms out, often extended metaphorically to meetings, approvals, and process loops. In engineering slang, people reach for recursion jokes whenever a system or org keeps calling itself forever.

    In plain English: Casual jargon and jokes about endless self-referential loops.

    Example: "The architecture approval flow had become infinite recursion slang, with each committee sending the proposal back to another committee for one more prerequisite opinion."

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