Corporate for 'let's never speak of this again' or, occasionally, 'I'll deal with it only when forced to.'
'Let's circle back on that' is how three good ideas quietly died this quarter.
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A short daily meeting where everyone says what they did yesterday and what they're doing today. It is never short, and someone always turns it into a conversation that should have been a Slack message.
Standup ran 40 minutes again because Kevin 'just had a quick thing.' It was not quick.
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A giant general-purpose AI that everything else is built on top of. Costs roughly a small country's GDP to make.
We don't make foundation models, we make a website that calls one and adds a logo.
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To hold a crypto asset no matter how far it falls. Originally a drunk typo of 'hold,' now a strategy and a personality.
Down 80%, still HODLing, still telling everyone at dinner about it.
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A test that passes and fails at random, slowly training the entire team to ignore the test suite altogether.
Just hit re-run, it's a flaky test. (It was not a flaky test. It was a real, shipping bug.)
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