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by threecheese 16 days ago
I’d like it if my leadership stopped using load-bearing, and others like “shape” and “estate”.

In the past, when you saw a new term of art it came from some book being passed around leadership (like Architect Elevator) or some new training program. “Platform mindset”, “Shift-left everything” etc.

These days, they are all coming from LLMs. You can probably infer which contracts we have from the wording of all-hands messages.

I even LIKE “shape”, it’s nice and generic and everyone immediately understands it. I just see it as an obvious low-impact brainwashing, and wonder what other effects there are that we don’t notice.