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friday_deploy_freak

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Bandwidth

Corporate for time and energy, as in 'I don't have the bandwidth' — the polite refusal of all incoming work.

— can you take this on?
— I'm at capacity, no bandwidth.
— you're watching a webinar.
— a high-bandwidth webinar.

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Tuning a model to ace the public tests everyone cites, whether or not it's actually better in real life. Teaching to the test, with a press release.

New model tops every benchmark and still can't count the r's in strawberry. Classic benchmaxxing.

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The insult for someone who sells when things get scary — i.e. someone who took a reasonable profit and avoided ruin.

Called me paper hands for selling. He's now down 95%. I'm at the beach.

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What you say to push code to production, frequently at 4:55pm on a Friday, right before logging off and letting the on-call person find out.

'Ship it,' said the guy leaving for a three-day weekend, to the guy who was not.

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Breaking one app into dozens of tiny ones, so instead of one thing failing, any of fifty things can fail, over the network, at once.

We went microservices and now ordering a coffee touches nine services and a prayer.

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