It has a long story and a lot of better explanations, but in short

  1. Some character has a problem;
  2. They find a short-term solution;
  3. It later becames unsufficient, and then a problem for them and others.
  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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    I’ve seen that first hand. Workers keep complaining how badly the engineers designed some machine. When I talked to the engineer who designed it, he told me it was fine 10 years ago, but many things have changed since then. Nowadays, the machine is sitting in a place where it wasn’t designed to sit and it’s doing things it wasn’t designed to do.