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by tayo42 19 days ago
That's a corporate phrase that predates the current llm stuff along with things like ping, circle back,table that
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Is it? I'd never heard it until Claude (or maybe Gemini was where I first heard it from). Any idea of the time frame when it started being spoken?
Reach out to tayo42, and they can provide some color.
At least 5-10 years. Like my whole career.

The llms usually remind me of how corporate people talk

Right, but I hadn't really heard it before until I started using AI daily.
This shows that a lot of neologisms that people think of as ‘AI speak’ are often older and common terms but from an unfamiliar domain (like the corporate world or academia).
Learnings, solutioning, synergy
Ideation.

We no longer meet, we jump on a call.

damn forgot about ideation lmao
"what is your ask" instead of "what is your question."
I think we're going to have to take this ... offline
These are different to me. An ask is when you expect some action from the person. A question is for an answer.