LLM Vocabulary

AI-Assisted programming has added certain words and phrases to my technical vocabulary. Some of these are fine, most of them make me wince. They are, however, useful when talking to a clanker. All the clankers seem to understand the intent behind these words and phrases really well. Even if I actively avoid using them, they always manage to sneak into my context window eventually.

Here's my list:

1. Gate - "gating a feature", "gating behind a feature flag"
2. Harden - "hardening auth", "hardening the billing flow"
3. Audit - "audit this feature", "audit dependencies"
4. Reconcile - "reconcile stream on resume"
5. Blast Radius - "what will the blast radius of this change be?"

I'll keep updating this post as I discover more LLM vocabulary.