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Ask HN: What are your favourite bullshit bingo buzzwords?

14 points by ulrischa 3y ago

wtt604 3y ago
Anything involving "synergies"
- JoeyBananas 3y ago
  At least synergy is not very common anymore.
jjgreen 3y ago
"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.
- numeromancer 3y ago
  AKA "Best practices"
bell-cot 3y ago
"Leverage", "synergy", and "family".
- FeistySkink 3y ago
  Unless we're talking about Fast & Furious, family is an instant red flag.
dtagames 3y ago
"Announces" Mostly means nothing now. Things are announced all the time that don't exist and never will.
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago
  Also: "Will announce". You're telling me that sometime in the future you're going to announce something? Yeah, watch me not care.
sizzzzlerz 3y ago
New and improved
- jcrash 3y ago
  classic
nsm 3y ago
"Modern" "Rust"
FeistySkink 3y ago
- 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)
- dserban 3y ago
  Algorithm, AI, machine learning (as in secret sauce) In the same vein, adding the prefix "neural-" to any useless snake oil to make it sound more important than it is. The marketing people at my company are guilty of this.
brodouevencode 3y ago
- 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
- tacostakohashi 3y ago
  Those are some good ones... especially the places that have several different monorepos, as well as a bunch of other repos too.
lisasays 3y ago
Velocity, cross-functional, "being Agile" "Scalable" as a catch-all synonym for "good" Come to think of it: anything to do with Agile DevOps
b20000 3y ago
AI ML GPT LLM
meketron 3y ago
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deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
Fervicus 3y ago
- Connective tissue - Living, breathing document - Lean - Cloud native - DEI
xet7 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
extasia 3y ago
"Data driven decision making"
pawelduda 3y ago
Blazing fast, modern alternative to X Agile Flat structure "We're like a family here" Pivot Lack of processes

14 points by ulrischa 3y ago

wtt604 3y ago

Anything involving "synergies"

JoeyBananas 3y ago
At least synergy is not very common anymore.

jjgreen 3y ago

"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.

numeromancer 3y ago
AKA "Best practices"

bell-cot 3y ago

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

FeistySkink 3y ago
Unless we're talking about Fast & Furious, family is an instant red flag.

dtagames 3y ago

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

AnimalMuppet 3y ago
Also: "Will announce". You're telling me that sometime in the future you're going to announce something? Yeah, watch me not care.

sizzzzlerz 3y ago

New and improved

jcrash 3y ago
classic

nsm 3y ago

"Modern" "Rust"

FeistySkink 3y ago

- 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)

dserban 3y ago
Algorithm, AI, machine learning (as in secret sauce) In the same vein, adding the prefix "neural-" to any useless snake oil to make it sound more important than it is. The marketing people at my company are guilty of this.

brodouevencode 3y ago

- 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

tacostakohashi 3y ago
Those are some good ones... especially the places that have several different monorepos, as well as a bunch of other repos too.

lisasays 3y ago

Velocity, cross-functional, "being Agile" "Scalable" as a catch-all synonym for "good" Come to think of it: anything to do with Agile DevOps

b20000 3y ago

AI ML GPT LLM

meketron 3y ago

[flagged]

deleted 3y ago

[deleted]

Fervicus 3y ago

- Connective tissue - Living, breathing document - Lean - Cloud native - DEI

xet7 3y ago

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

extasia 3y ago

"Data driven decision making"

pawelduda 3y ago

Blazing fast, modern alternative to X Agile Flat structure "We're like a family here" Pivot Lack of processes