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yak shaving
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#1·3h ago
Performing a seemingly pointless preliminary task that leads to other preliminary tasks — all in the name of solving your actual original problem.
"Tried to add a button, ended up rewriting the build system. Pure yak shaving."
Origin: Coined by Carlin Vieri at MIT AI Lab in the 1990s, from a Ren & Stimpy episode.
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