[forgottenpass]

Yep, it's almost as annoying as using "Apple adjectives" (flowery prose like wonderful, pleasure, beauty, love, etc... applied towards any tech).

Hacker hasn't really meant anything for decades. I remember the old guys getting mad when "hacker" became a boogieman for the news, but the recent round seemed to start when some dude wrote a book that used the cachet of "hacking" to sell impressionable youths on the idea of working for him in a tech-adjacent position. By appealing to someone's desires and by giving your thing a unique je ne sais quoi (no matter how flimsy it really is) you can influence them into your personal brand of chasing their desires.