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code monkey

noun

A caffeine-adjacent mammal that converts pizza, Red Bull, vague requirements, and barely suppressed rage into functioning software.

See also:
scope creep, production hotfix, rubber duck therapy, Stack Overflow archaeology, deploying on Friday, why is this null, temporary workaround from 2019, just one quick change



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