stopgap

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davisの "Rebooting AI" を読んでいます。

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs often aspire to "move fast and break things"; the mantra is "Get a working product on the market before someone beats you to it; and then worry about problem later." The downside is that a product created this way often works at one scale, but needs to be wholly rewritten when the situation changes; or it works for the demo, but not the real world. This is known as "technical debt": you get a first, sometimes bug ridden, version of the product you want; but you often have to pay later, with interest, in making the system robust, rooting out stopgaps and rebuilding foundations.

会社で海外のメーカーの製品を取り扱っていますが、あるカナダのメーカーが出す新製品の仕様は優れているがトラブルが多く、クレームの連続で、対策は後手後手です。　さて "stopgaps" の意味を調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: something that you use or do for a short time while you are looking for something better: The arrangement was only intended as a stopgap.
・Collins Dictionary: A stopgap is something that serves a purpose for a short time, but is replaced as soon as possible.: Gone are the days when work was just a stopgap between leaving school and getting married.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: something intended for temporary use until something better or more suitable can be found: Hostels are used as a stopgap until the families can find permanent accommodation.

ギャップを埋めるのを一時しのぎの手段でやりくりするようですね。