Stitches in Time
Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
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A reference to fixing something early before it grows into a larger mess. In engineering slang, stitches in time are the small maintenance tasks that save teams from future incident marathons.
In plain English: Small early fixes that prevent bigger problems later.
Example: "Cleaning up the flaky test harness looked minor, but it was exactly the kind of stitches in time work that prevents ugly release weeks later."