A kludge or kluge is a workaround or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain. Its only benefit is that it rapidly solves an important problem using available resources.

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    Yeah, it describes about 99% of all IT solutions and Implementations.

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        Oh my God, YES. I Am aware of two proof of concepts that have been running for at least 10 years

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      curiously, the stuff i have at home is mostly nice and organized.

      almost like we need time to properly figure things out and IT departments just want to push us ever faster.

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        Yeah, that’s it man….

        get it done right now!!! deploy it now!!!

        they even created a buzzard for it called “MVP”…. Minimum viable product, a.k.a. deploy the crap …… install the crap.

        I’ve learned to say jobs done, boss

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      The first modem just transmitted data over the analog phone network as a series of beeps, a function which the phone system was never designed for.

      Computer networking is kludges all the way down.