I unironically really like SF tech bro slang. A lot of them are derived from concepts and terms in Math. You can actually see their values (intelligence, risk-taking, hard work, etc.) reflected in their slang. Anyway, here’s a list of them in no particular order:

• Permanent underclass
• Orthogonal
• Nontrivial
• High agency
• ngmi
• Out-of-Distribution
• Directionally. As in “can you indicate directionally good or bad?”
• Cracked
• Non-technical

List of cool startup names:

• Applied Compute
• The Browser Company
• Thinking Machines
• Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Also, a list of AI terms to throw at interviewers in case they doubt how deep into AI psychosis I am atp in my life:

• Mention what the newest model is. Mention what the “best” model is right now according to people on Twitter and benchmarks
• Open weight models: Kimi, GLM, Qwen, MiniMax, DeepSeek
• OpenClaw (though I personally think it’s overhyped and that AI agents on your terminal like Claude Code or Opencode are better)
• Loop/graphs AI workflows (also overhyped)
• Karpathy’s LLM Wiki
• SKILL.md
• AGENTS.md, Context layer, context engineering, RAG
• Agent harness
• Agentic workflow
• Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor

Bonus LLM-isms:

• Smoke tests.
• It’s not x - it’s y.
• x is broken.