Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

brute force and ignorance
     
         (BFI) A popular design technique at many software
        houses - {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of
        how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
        Dogmatic adherence to design methods tends to encourage this
        sort of thing.  Characteristic of early {larval stage}
        programming; unfortunately, many never outgrow it.
     
        Also encountered in the variants BFMI - brute force and
        massive ignorance, and BFBI - brute force and bloody
        ignorance.
     
        "Gak, they used a {bubble sort}!  That's strictly BFI."
     
        Compare {bogosity}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1996-06-12)