Wait people use unintroduced initialisms and acronyms in technical writing? This is something that should always be avoided because it makes the barrier to unde

Wait people use unintroduced initialisms and acronyms in technical writing? This is something that should always be avoided because it makes the barrier to understanding so much higher. Internally we stress to avoid acronym abuse because it's that much harder to onboard. One of my colleagues from Austria compiled a spreadsheet of acronyms he's come across in our IT realm and it's at about 1300+ rows at this point. It's absolutely wild how much information is obfuscated by stuff like this especially when companies reuse the same acronyms to mean different things. A non-trivial amount of pre-sales failures (e.g. misleading clients on capabilities) came from use.of acronyms from one company which is also used by our company. The sales rep asking if we support XYZ and we go "yes" thinking they mean our XYZ but in fact it's some other XYZ that we don't support. It's a horrible practice in our industry with no purpose. If it's too long to write, just set up autohotkey to expand these shorthands