The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
bogotify
/boh?go't@?fi:/, vt.
To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many times as
to become completely disorganized has become bogotified. If you tighten a
nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become
bogotified and you had better not use it any more. This coinage led to the
notional autobogotiphobia defined as ?the fear of becoming bogotified?; but
is not clear that the latter has ever been ?live? jargon rather than a
self-conscious joke in jargon about jargon. See also bogosity, bogus.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
bogotify
autobogotiphobia
/boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program
that has been changed so many times as to become completely
disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too
hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become
bogotified.
See also bogosity.
(2003-01-25)