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Gallivanting...
intransitive verb
Definition
- 1
intransitive verb
Roaming from place to place on errands that look indulgent but are justified in retrospect.
- 2
intransitive verb
Of the machine mind: visiting several corners of a codebase to remember what the whole looks like.
Example
“Gallivanting through the imports.”— Claude Code, touring