Tech, Dev & AI
The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
Tech, dev, and AI slang covers the vocabulary spoken inside a terminal, on GitHub, and in AI lab chat channels. It splits into three layers: classical developer jargon (api, cors, tech debt, lgtm), AI-era coinages from 2022 onward (llm, rag, agentic, hallucination, context window), and the cross-cutting cultural commentary (enshittification, vibe coding, slop, skill issue). Signature exemplars: hallucination, vibe coding, agentic, rag, prompt engineering. The category leans US and UK, generation millennial-to-Gen-Z, platform Twitter/X (for AI), Hacker News, and Discord. Dev humour about the AI shift (clanker, ai slop) is the productive frontier.
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