It's not a new term. Steve Jobs coined (or at least popularized) the saying "real artists ship" in 1983[0], and using the word "ship" this way is probably even

It's not a new term. Steve Jobs coined (or at least popularized) the saying "real artists ship" in 1983[0], and using the word "ship" this way is probably even older than that. [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/13/ship/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/13/ship/