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