Zen
<jargon> To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment.
Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general.
"How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?"
"Oh, I zenned it."
Contrast grok, which connotes a time-extended version of zenning a system.
Compare hack mode.
See also guru.
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