Lint Trap

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

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  1. A situation where linting rules or tooling create friction, false confidence, or time sink without improving the real code quality proportionally. In engineering slang, a lint trap is where the tool starts shaping work more than the problem does.

    In plain English: A frustrating situation where linting tools create more trouble than value.

    Example: "The repo had turned into a lint trap where people spent longer appeasing style rules than discussing the risky concurrency behavior in the actual patch."

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