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A wildly complex system for running software across many machines. Solves problems you didn't have by handing you new, far more interesting ones. Mercifully shortened to k8s.

Hiding in one spot waiting to ambush. A strategy that works and that everyone hates you for using.

The point where people genuinely want the thing you built and will pay for it. Mostly mentioned by companies that don't have it, usually in the past tense.

Asking an AI to do something with no examples at all and hoping for the best. Brave.

When the creators of a crypto project take everyone's money and vanish. A scam, but with a Discord server and a roadmap.