| Priority Inversion | When a source tree closes early for low priority bugs, resulting in developers working on those first and putting the critical stuff off for later. |
| Catastrophic subtraction | When code to optimize a "bizarre corner case that never really happens" is removed. |
| Fire Fighting | Desperately working to fix bugs to avoid being fired. |
| Infinite loop | Inevitable result of programming languages which use an iterator variable but require the iterator be incremented explicitly. |
| lightweight, simple | attributes applied to one's preferred solution. For solutions preferred by others, see heavyweight, complex |