Being incompetent, having a grossly inflated sense of
one's competence, and possibly being lazy too, with the result being a very
bad (or non-working) design or implementation. Often used in conjunction with the name "Paula". Originates from a post on The Daily WTF (an online forum discussing examples of
bad programming practices) where a lazy programmer named Paula had coded exactly five lines of
Java for a major project in several months and had managed to
bullshit her way through weekly meetings regarding her progress. One of the lines was:
private String paula = "Brillant";
whose sheer elementariness, inappropriateness in production code, narcissism and self-inflation, with a
weird spelling for "Brillant" on top of everything else, was deemed memorable.