How to pronounce “second-system effect”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by overengineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

Practice Nearby Words

inner-platform effect, creeping elegance, baby duck syndrome, robustification, legacy system, embedded system, eliza effect, feature envy, sub-system, studio system, automation bias, automation complacency, side effect, downteching, blub paradox, programming in the large, subcapacity, open system, brooks's law, superstabilization, adaptive-control function, qwerty syndrome, suboptimization, big bang, software crisis, programmed obsolescence, technical debt, systems design, ephemeralization, macrosystem, intelligent system, structronics, infosystem, selective compression, horizon effect, principle of least astonishment, intelligentization, built-in obsolescence, autodestruct, autodestruction, cupertino effect, fritterware, graceful degradation, supercompressor, scaleout, simulation, postel's law, backpressure, switch engine, dependency inversion principle, race condition, simulation hypothesis, cache stampede, redundancy, las vegas effect, hyperinnovation, weakest link, antipattern, undersubscription, optimization, overcoding, bit rot, subtechnology, systems programming, expectimax, autoscaler, oversubscription, systems language, expert system, servicification, emulation, spreadmart, cargo culting, backstepping, zawinski's law, feedback, technomagic, system pull, partial evaluation, zombie system, smop, grosch's law, systems software, ibm pollyanna principle, progressive enhancement, sealed system, supermodel, stereotype, dependency, hyperautomation, superminicomputer, systempunkt, hyperoptimization, gotcha, autonomics, system architecture, robot revolution, self-diagnosis, scaler, system software

Similar Sounds

second estate, sound system, scientistic, seek and destroy, school district, cease and desist, socks and sandals, solid-state, solid state, somnific