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development hell

noun

Definitions

  1. The situation where a movie, a piece of software, etc. is mired in problems that delay…

    The situation where a movie, a piece of software, etc. is mired in problems that delay its production and release.

    • The third movie in the trilogy has been in development hell for ten years already! I want to see how the story ends!
    • In Hollywood, it was widely known that to make a deal with Redford was to fall into development hell—script notes, rewrites, and more rewrites—often going nowhere.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for development hell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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