Overwriting the shared history of a repo with your own version. An act of either great confidence or open war.
He force-pushed to main and erased a week of everyone else's work. He is no longer with the company.
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Harassing someone by relentlessly demanding polite 'debate' and 'just one source' in bad faith until they give up.
He sealioned the thread for six hours asking for evidence he had no intention of reading.
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How much text an AI can keep in mind at once before it forgets the start of the conversation — including your name and what you told it to do.
Pasted the whole spec in, and by the end it had forgotten the instructions at the top. Small context window energy.
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Turning words into a long list of numbers so a computer can tell which things are 'similar.' The math behind search that kind of works.
The embeddings think 'CEO' and 'liability' are basically the same vector. No notes.
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Optimizing everything around LLM tokens — stuffing context, trimming prompts, doing whatever it takes to fit the Context Window or lower the API bill. The internet's '-maxxing' suffix, pointed at AI.
He's tokenmaxxing so hard he deleted all the vowels from his system prompt to save three cents per call.
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The 'temporary' stretch of brutal overtime before a launch that somehow becomes the permanent way of working.
We've been in crunch so long it's just called Tuesday now.
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