Shotgun surgery

Shotgun surgery is when you take a big problem and try to fix it by making a lot of small changes to different parts of it, without really thinking about how they all fit together. Imagine your toy train isn't working, and you start taking out all the pieces and messing with them, hoping that one of the changes will make it run again. But you don't really understand how the pieces fit together, and you might actually end up making things worse or breaking the train even more. That's what shotgun surgery is like- trying lots of things without really understanding how it will all work together.

In software development or programming, shotgun surgery means making a lot of changes to code or modules without thinking too much about how they're all connected. It can make the code very messy and hard to maintain, and it can cause bugs or errors that are hard to find and fix. It's usually better to try to understand the bigger problem and make changes that address it more directly, rather than making lots of small changes that might not be coordinated.