The definitive handbook for anyone who’s ever whispered “what even is my job?” into a Slack thread.
Written by engineers, edited by HR, and approved by Legal, this guide explores the delicate balance between innovation, burnout, and pretending everything’s fine on Zoom.
Recommended for readers suffering from mild to severe purpose drift, meeting fatigue, or existential merge conflicts.
- Agentic AI – Agentic Artificial Initiative (noun)
- AI – Artificial Irritation (noun)
- CDD – Conference Driven Development (noun)
- CI/CD – Continuous Infighting / Controlled Destruction (noun)
- CQRS – Command Query Regret Segregation (noun)
- Cross-Functional (adj.)
- Culture Debt (noun)
- Design Patterns (noun)
- DevOps – Distributed Excuses via Over-Permissioned Pipelines (noun)
- Domain Driven Development (DDD) (noun)
- Event Sourcing (noun)
- Facepocalypse (noun)
- Git Blameflow (noun)
- Heisenbug (noun)
- Hero Mode (noun)
- Innovation Theatre (noun)
- Jirassic Park (noun)
- Kanbanxiety (noun)
- Managerial Alchemy (noun)
- Microservices (noun)
- MVP – Minimum Viable Paradox (noun)
- Ohnosecond (noun)
- Praise-gasam (noun)
- Process Necrosis (noun)
- Prompt-Driven Development (PDD) (noun)
- RDD – Résumé Driven Development (noun)
- Retrospective Amnesia (noun)
- Root Cause Theatre (noun)
- Schrödinger’s Deadline (noun)
- Schrödinger’s Project (noun)
- Schrödinger’s Promotion (noun)
- Scope Creep (noun)
- Slacklash (noun)
- Specifiction (noun)
- Sprintnesia (noun)
- SRE – System Repair Engineer (noun)
- Tech Debt (noun)
- The Monolith Requiem (noun)
- Vibe Coding (noun)
- Zoomnesia (noun)