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Shitty code written by some upcoming generations of programmers (typically Zoomers) founded on inexperience and often suffering heavily from the Dunning–Kruger effect because they simply do not know what they don't know, but they're very sure about their code being good because it's new, and anything else is bad because it is old. Often relies heavily on tooling to spit out boilerplate while their IDE autocompletes most of the coding for them. Tends to use new and "exciting" tools the majority of which are abandoned in 2 years or less because the coders of the tools got bored, got the job they wanted, or most often just found out they were wrong about it making their jobs easier. Tend to be rich in buzzwords the zoomercoder doesn't actually understand and be over-engineered by injecting abstract ideas born from self important navel gazing far divorced from any problem solving of actual value. Defining characteristics of zoomercode are running slowly, being resource intensive, high surface area code that is a chore to maintain, and tripling or more the time from concept to production ready code. The stated purpose of their code is to make fast code that is easy to maintain and fast to production, but it's entirely the opposite.
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