Best Braindead Tech Jargon
Title says it all. Looking for best obnoxious buzz words being used in AI / startup circles to trick people into thinking their product is novel when it’s obvious they just stole the word from a keynote speaker and nobody knows what it means. I keep hearing agentic like nonstop right now.
Based on the most helpful WSO content, here are some of the most obnoxious buzzwords and jargon often thrown around in tech and AI circles to sound innovative or cutting-edge:
These terms are often used to create an illusion of novelty or complexity, even when the underlying product or idea is far from groundbreaking.
Sources: Technological advancements in IB, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/venture-capital/this-forum-helped-me-go-from-blackstone-to-facebook-to-ycombinator-startup?customgpt=1, Palantir's Big Move | The Daily Peel | 5/9/2023, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investing/solving-a-crazy-problem-the-daily-peel-52223?customgpt=1, For Reál | The Daily Peel | 1/23/23
S tier
Generational company
Superpower
Agentic
Building / Builders
Revolutionize
Retroactive founder (employees who weren’t there at the founding but are “retroactive founders” because of their subsequent contributions)
I always love when somebody tells me they have / are creating a flywheel. In my head, I recall one of my earliest memories. I’m running back and forth on the sidewalk by my childhood home holding a metallic and blue plastic flywheel to make it spin before stopping and raising it to eye level and blowing on it as hard as I can.
Then I snap back to present and my next thought is waaayyy less pleasant “this guy is bullshitting me”
PS - hitting myself with a preemptive “pause” so one of these young guns don’t posterize me.
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