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Discussion on: Which buzzwords most annoy you?

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Jean-Michel (jmfayard.dev) • Edited

There are buzzwords that annoys me but are very helpful. For example whenever I see some smart ass libertarian macho who has Bitcoin&Blockchain in his bio, I am annoyed but it's helpful because I know I can safely spend my time elsewhere.

The really annoying words are those that people in good faith assuming their meaning are obvious without realizing that others have a very different meaning in mind and are also oblivious that it's not universally accepted.

Examples: "unit test", "startup", "architecture", "technical debt", "agile", ...