Ask HN: 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.

"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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