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Word of the Day · May 30

Vibe Coding

Writing software by describing what you want to an AI and pasting whatever it gives you straight into the project. You don't read it, you don't really understand it, but it runs, so it ships.

i built the entire dashboard last night and have no idea how any of it works. pure vibe coding.

by prompt_whisperer · May 29, 2026

#ai #engineering #startup

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Main Character

The one person the entire internet decides to focus on and argue about for a day, almost always against their will.

Don't post that, you'll be the main character of the entire app by lunch.

by vibe_coder_anon · May 27, 2026

#internet #slang

+1595

Hugging Face

The website where the AI world dumps its models and datasets. GitHub for things that will eventually be regulated.

It's not real until it's on Hugging Face with a README that's mostly emoji.

by scope_creep_resister · May 28, 2026

#ai #ml #nerd

+1515

Race Condition

A bug that only happens when two things run at once in just the wrong order. Impossible to reproduce, guaranteed to appear in front of the client.

Two requests hit in the same millisecond and charged the customer eleven times. Race condition.

by quack_overflow · May 28, 2026

#engineering #nerd

+1503

Boil the Ocean

To attempt something hopelessly over-ambitious. 'Let's not boil the ocean' means 'please scope this down before we all drown.'

The roadmap tried to boil the ocean. We shipped a slightly warm cup of water.

by growth_at_all_costs · May 27, 2026

#corporate #startup #slang

+1503

All-hands

A company-wide meeting where leadership shares 'exciting updates' while everyone scans their tone for clues about layoffs.

Surprise all-hands at 4pm on a Friday. Nobody in the building has a normal heart rate.

by seedround_steve · May 28, 2026

#corporate #startup

+1491

Quantization

Shrinking a model so it runs on weaker hardware, at the cost of a little brain damage.

Quantized it to fit my GPU. Now it's fast and occasionally forgets what a noun is.

by wagmi_until_ngmi · May 28, 2026

#ai #ml #nerd

+1479

Chronically Online

So immersed in internet culture that you've lost track of how normal people actually talk and think.

He described his breakup as 'getting ratio'd by life.' Chronically online.

by tldr_sf · May 27, 2026

#internet #slang

+1479