Tech Jargon Decoded

LGTM, ship it — the stuff nobody explains in onboarding

45 terms your colleagues assume you already know

SHORTHAND

Code Review

LGTM · Looks Good To Me

PTAL · Please Take A Look

SGTM · Sounds Good To Me

nit · Nitpick; minor, non-blocking suggestion

WIP · Work In Progress

RFC · Request For Comments

Conversation

IMO / IMHO · In My (Humble) Opinion

IIRC · If I Recall Correctly

AFAIK · As Far As I Know

FWIW · For What It's Worth

YMMV · Your Mileage May Vary

TIL · Today I Learned

TL;DR · Too Long; Didn't Read

ELI5 · Explain Like I'm 5

ICYMI · In Case You Missed It

PRINCIPLES

Design Maxims

YAGNI · You Ain't Gonna Need It

DRY · Don't Repeat Yourself

KISS · Keep It Simple, Stupid

SOLID · Five OOP design principles (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov, Interface segregation, Dependency inversion)

WET · Write Everything Twice (tongue-in-cheek anti-DRY)

RTFM · Read The Manual (the F is implied)

SoC · Separation of Concerns

Bug Types

PEBKAC · Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

Heisenbug · Disappears when you try to observe it (yes, named after Heisenberg)

Regression · Something that used to work but doesn't now

Flaky · Fails intermittently for unclear reasons (usually tests)

Race condition · Outcome depends on timing

Edge case · Unusual scenario at the boundaries

CULTURE

Processes

Bikeshedding · Debating trivial details while ignoring the important stuff

Yak shaving · Doing seemingly unrelated prerequisite tasks

Dogfooding · Using your own product internally

Rubber ducking · Explaining a problem aloud to debug it (the duck doesn't need to answer)

Ship it · Deploy, release, send it to production

Scope creep · Gradual expansion beyond original requirements

Code

Tech debt · Accumulated shortcuts that slow future work

Greenfield · Building from scratch, no existing code

Brownfield · Working within existing codebase constraints

Boilerplate · Repetitive template code you always need

Spaghetti code · Tangled, hard-to-follow code

Refactoring · Restructuring code without changing behavior

Footgun · A feature that's easy to misuse dangerously

Team

Bus factor · How many people can leave before the project dies (also "truck factor" if buses feel morbid)

10x engineer · Mythically productive developer (often used ironically)

Cargo culting · Copying patterns without understanding why they work

NIH syndrome · Not Invented Here; rejecting external solutions

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