We'll Fix It Later

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  1. A common promise used to justify shipping with known flaws or incompleteness. In engineering slang, it is often less a plan than the opening line of future debt.

    In plain English: A promise to postpone a known problem until later.

    Example: "The team heard we'll fix it later three times in the launch review and correctly translated that into a likely follow-up quarter of cleanup."

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