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Is it Baader-Meinhof or is everyone on HN suddenly using obscure acronyms?

It stands for Product Requirements Document, it is something commonly used in project planning and management.

Maybe so, but personally it seemed to be referred to as a "specification" or "spec" for a long time, and then suddenly around maybe 5 years ago I started to hear people use "PRD". I'm not sure what caused the change.

Yep, software specs or requirements[0]. Thanks to LLMs it's easy to look up acronyms, but still, it feels like there's an uptick of them on HN[1]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_requirements_specific...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323316 who the hell knows that version of "RSI"?

Seems commonly used in Big Tech - first time I heard it was in my current job. Now it's seared into my brain since it's used so much. Among many other acronyms which I won't bore you with.

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