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Boss: "Just slap something together for the meeting with the Big Cheese this afternoon."

(Engineer internal monologue) "OK I'll just agree to everything during setup, I can just tear it all down later."

Six months later the slapped together demo is the production release.



As the engineering saying goes, nothing more permanent than a temporary solution




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