A **foot gun** is a metaphorical gun you equip yourself with which sets you up to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot. Footguns in reality aren't obviously footguns, or you'd never use them. Instead they appear like regular features that "could be useful", only to wind up turning into footguns. I something that seemI first ran across the term in the realm of coding, but like many things that originated in software development, it is applicable in all sorts of contexts. Footgun is an example of an anti[[Pattern]]. They show up time and time again in all sorts of places, often when [[Conceptual Integrity]] is skirted. > [!example] > You add a shortcut to do something easier, but then the requirements of the thing change and you forget to update the shortcut. This example I have seen in business as well as coding and general systems development. **** # More ## Source - life