See No Evil

Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations

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  1. A willful refusal to acknowledge a known problem or warning signal. In engineering slang, 'see no evil' behavior is how small issues survive long enough to become incidents.

    In plain English: Deliberately ignoring a problem or warning sign.

    Example: "The platform had a see no evil relationship with flaky tests, treating them as background weather until one false green finally covered up a serious regression."

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