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noun
The tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by overengineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: second-system syndrome
Antonyms: none provided
History
Introduced by Fred Brooks in his book The Mythical Man-Month (1975).
