I learned this term from a 2012 blog post, which summarized a (now deleted) Stack Overflow question: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ http

I learned this term from a 2012 blog post, which summarized a (now deleted) Stack Overflow question: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ My other favorite from that list is "baklava code" -- code that has too many layers.