jargon

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html

My additions

  • second order effects
  • solved problem
  • unreasonable effectiveness
  • root of all evil
  • rubber duck
  • all the laws like pareto principle etc
  • strong opinions weakly held
  • refactor
  • complexity
  • pwn
  • stack overflow
  • parse error
    • when you fail to understand something someone said, or its genuinely badly written
  • zero sum
  • ESOMETHING
    • e.g. if something fails due to having too many items (or whatever), you might just say ETOOMANYITEMS.
    • if you have no context on a joke, you might say ENOCONTEXT
  • type checks
    • instead of 'it tracks' or 'fits the description'
  • slope over y intercept

favorites in the jargon file

  • considered harmful
  • magic
  • box
  • bounce
  • root
  • segfault
  • core dump
  • high order bit (high bit)
  • hop
  • borked/borken

LLM stuff? wip

  • context
  • gain of function
  • ralph
  • RLHF'd into oblivion
  • slop
  • vibe
  • agent psychosis