Field Guide to Developer Behavior

rage-shave

verb

/ˈreɪdʒ ʃeɪv/

rage-shaving; yak-shaving out of spite

To build a piece of software, tool, or MCP server whose sole origin story is pure hatred for an existing tool’s UI, entirely as a byproduct of wanting to never touch that tool directly again.

“I didn’t plan to build a whole SNOW MCP server this weekend, but I rage-shaved it because I couldn’t take the web UI for one more ticket.”

Distinguishing Features

Motivated by fury, not a roadmap, ticket, or business case
Scope is inversely proportional to how bad the original tool is
Often more polished than tools built for "real" reasons
Output lets you never open the offending tool again