What are your favourite bullshit bingo buzzwords?

- Young and enthusiastic team (we drink together)

- Agile (no processes)

- Fast-paced environment (same as above)

- Real-time (when not used in a CS sense, i.e. something happens relatively fast)

- Algorithm, AI, machine learning (as in secret sauce)

- Team building (mandatory fun time)

- Systemic "systemic failure": a word that no one ever used prior to 2008, now used for everything that was previously considered 'widespread'

- Receipts "we have the receipts": typically on Twitter to justify conjecture or half-baked proof of political enemy's bad behavior

- Synergy "group synergy": le sigh

- Full stack "full stack developer": a mysterious animal that never really manifests despite recruiter claims

- AI "we're scared of AI": while ML is a subset of AI according to most groups, it's usually used to describe ML and substituted as AGI

- Monorepo "we run a monorepo": no you don't

Velocity, cross-functional, "being Agile"

"Scalable" as a catch-all synonym for "good"

Come to think of it: anything to do with Agile

DevOps

"Leverage", "synergy", and "family".

"Standard" meaning commonly used: I had a manager "encourage" me to rewrite a reasonably large C project I was finishing off in Go for this reason. My lip still has the bite-marks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

"Announces" Mostly means nothing now. Things are announced all the time that don't exist and never will.

"Data driven decision making"

Anything involving "synergies"

"Modern"

"Rust"

Blazing fast, modern alternative to X

Agile

Flat structure

"We're like a family here"

Pivot

Lack of processes

AI ML GPT LLM

- Connective tissue

- Living, breathing document

- Lean

- Cloud native

- DEI

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