Software Engineering · Product & Engineering
A rough, throwaway build made to demonstrate that an idea is technically feasible — not to be shipped to production.
Example: A weekend build proving a browser extension can read the page DOM and inject a widget, before committing to a real product.
In practice: A PoC answers 'can this work at all,' not 'is this production-ready' — treating its code as a starting point for the real implementation is a common source of technical debt.