Debate Glossary
Browse 9 debate terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
9 Debate Terms
- 10x Engineer
- 10x Engineer is a term describing a software developer who is supposedly ten times more productive than an average engineer. The concept originates from...
- AGI
- Artificial General Intelligence — a hypothetical AI system that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across all domains, not just narrow tasks. Whether...
- AI Skeptic
- A person who questions AI claims, timelines, product value, safety narratives, or business hype rather than assuming optimistic outcomes. In healthy teams, AI...
- Bikeshed
- Bikeshed is shorthand for an unimportant or trivial topic that receives disproportionate attention in group discussions, derived from Parkinson's Law of...
- Bike Shed Color
- Bike Shed Color, derived from Parkinson's Law of Triviality, refers to the specific type of low-stakes decision that groups tend to argue about at...
- Binary Thinking
- The habit of treating situations as if there are only two opposing outcomes or categories when reality is more nuanced. In tech culture binary thinking often...
- Godwin's law
- An internet adage asserting that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Originally...
- sealioning
- A harassment tactic disguised as civil discourse, in which a person persistently and politely asks questions or requests evidence in bad faith, feigning...
- Tabs vs. Spaces
- The oldest and most pointless debate in programming: whether to use tab characters or space characters for indentation. Silicon Valley dedicated an entire...
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