bad code

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buggyHorse-drawn cart
spaghettiLong thin cylindrical pasta
messyLacking order or neatness
hackyInelegantly cobbled together
brokenDamaged beyond function

unmaintainable · legacy · tangled · smelly · kludge · cruft · technical debt · sloppy · convoluted · fragile · bloated · unreadable · nightmare · refactor · debugging · patch · workaround · brittle

Categories

tech problemsbug, paper jam, low ink, dropped calls, bugs
software bugsbug, error, glitch, defect, fault

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code quality

bad codeclean code

Well-organized, maintainable programming

functionality

bad codeproduction code

Software serving real users

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