[deadbabe]

Claude Corps, Forward Deployed Engineers, Strategic Token Reserves… what’s with all these military inspired naming conventions in AI? We’re just typing softly on keyboards…

[dewey]

Time to deploy to the staging environment after discussing it in the war room.

[mvdtnz]

"Staging" is not and has never been a military analogy. All kinds of workers have staging areas. Brick layers stage their work before laying. Builders stage materials. Staging is an area where you place your work before you begin deploying it.

[camkego]

Well, according to Sonnet, the term "staging" refers to assembling troops and equipment at an intermediate location before moving forward into an operation.

I really didn't know, but was curious, so I used an LLM to research it.

[dude250711]

A trained AI operator will neutralise threats to your production.

[yieldcrv]

Palantir had first mover advantage on FDE rebranding of sales engineer, and so its the term that stuck

[brentm]

Reminds me more of Peace Corps.

[wongarsu]

Which itself is named after a military term, and has been described in the terms of a military campaign, just for peace. Wikipedia begins the history of the Peace Corps with an article titled "A Proposal for a Total Peace Offensive". Followed later by 'In 1952 Senator Brien McMahon (D-Connecticut) proposed an "army" of young Americans to act as "missionaries of democracy"'

[sph]

Americans high on their own propaganda. It's cringeworthy.

[airstrike]

It goes hard in today's environment ig

[rainprincess]

lmfao