68 terms
Building with AI
The vocabulary of shipping AI products, from vibe coding and APIs to evals and wrappers.
- agent cost stacknountrendinga layer-by-layer breakdown of the total cost of building and operating an AI agent, extending beyond model tokens to expenses…
- agent debtnountrendingthe accumulating maintenance, operational, governance, and reliability burden created when AI-generated code or agent workflows…
- agent development lifecyclenountrendinga repeatable process for designing, building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and improving AI agents throughout their…
- agent economicsnountrendingthe measurement and management of the full cost and business value of work performed by AI agents, usually in terms of completed…
- agent experiencenountrendingthe quality of an AI agent's interaction with a website, application, API, or workflow, and the practice of designing those…
- agent replaynountrendingthe reconstruction or controlled re-execution of a recorded AI agent run from its messages, model calls, tool calls, state…
- agent SLOnountrendinga measurable reliability target for an AI agent over a defined period, covering outcomes such as task completion, groundedness…
- agent washingnountrendingthe practice of marketing or relabeling a chatbot, assistant, scripted workflow, or conventional automation as an AI agent even…
- agentic codingnountrendingsoftware development in which an AI agent plans changes, edits many files, runs tests and commands, and fixes errors on its own…
- agentic trafficnountrendingwebsite, application, or API requests generated by AI agents that browse, compare, fill forms, communicate, or transact on behalf…
- AI coding assistantnouna tool that helps programmers by suggesting code as they type, explaining code, writing tests, or making changes on request
- AI control planenountrendinga centralized management layer that governs AI models and agents across an organization by applying shared controls for identity…
- AI crawlernountrendingan automated program that retrieves content from websites to support AI model training, search, retrieval, assistants, or related…
- AI humanizernountrendinga tool that rewrites AI-generated text to make its wording and rhythm appear more human, often with the stated aim of reducing…
- AI observabilitynounthe practice of collecting and connecting traces, metrics, logs, evaluations, and other telemetry so that developers can…
- AI R&D automationnounthe use of AI systems to perform parts of artificial-intelligence research and development, such as reading papers, proposing…
- AI UGCnountrendingadvertising content generated with AI to resemble the informal, phone-recorded style of a customer, creator, or influencer…
- AI washingnounexaggerating or inventing the use of AI in a product or company to attract customers or investors
- AI-firstadjectivedescribing a company or strategy that treats AI as the default way to do work, checking first whether AI can do a task before…
- AI-nativeadjectivetrendingdesigned from the start around AI, rather than having AI features added to an existing product or process
- AI-ready datanountrendingdata that has been prepared, documented, governed, and made accessible in forms that an AI system can reliably use for training…
- answer engine optimizationnounoptimizing content so it is chosen as the direct answer by voice assistants, featured snippets, and AI chatbots, rather than just…
- APInounapplication programming interface: a defined way for one program to send requests to another, which is how developers use AI…
- API keynouna secret code that identifies your account when your program calls an API, and that is used for billing
- autoformalizationnountrendingthe automatic translation of mathematical statements, definitions, or proofs written in natural language into a formal language…
- benchmarknouna public, standardized test used to compare AI models, such as a set of exam questions, coding tasks, or math problems
- chained voice pipelinenountrendinga voice-agent architecture that converts a person's speech to text, sends the text through an agent or language-model workflow…
- coding agentnountrendingan AI agent built to work on software: it reads a codebase, writes and edits code across many files, runs tests and commands, and…
- compound AI systemnountrendingan AI application whose behavior comes from several interacting components, such as models, retrieval systems, tools, memory…
- dark factorynouna way of building software in which AI coding agents write, test, and ship code from specifications without any human reading the…
- decision intelligencenountrendingan interdisciplinary approach to improving or automating decisions by combining data, analytics, machine learning, business…
- disposable softwarenountrendingsoftware created quickly, often by an AI coding system, for a narrow and temporary need, with little or no expectation that it…
- E-E-A-Tnouna Google Search quality concept describing whether content demonstrates first-hand experience, subject-matter expertise…
- Edge MLOpsnountrendingMLOps adapted for deploying, monitoring, and updating machine-learning models across edge devices, where hardware, connectivity…
- evalnountrendinga set of test cases used to measure how well a model or AI feature performs on the tasks you care about, run regularly to catch…
- forward-deployed engineernountrendinga software engineer who works closely inside a customer's organization to discover requirements and build, integrate, evaluate…
- generative engine optimizationnountrendingthe practice of shaping web content so that AI chatbots and AI search features find it, trust it, and cite it in their answers
- generative UInountrendinga user interface that an AI system selects, assembles, or generates at run time for a particular request, producing elements such…
- geospatial AInounthe application of artificial intelligence to data connected with locations, spatial relationships, movement, or changes across…
- hybrid intelligencenountrendingintelligence or decision-making produced by combining human judgment with artificial intelligence so that people and machines…
- license launderingnountrendingthe practice or alleged practice of using generative AI to rewrite licensed software or other protected material and then…
- LLM-as-a-judgenounusing one language model to grade or compare the outputs of another, as a cheaper and faster alternative to human reviewers
- LLM-driven fuzzingnouna software-testing technique that uses a large language model to create or improve fuzz targets, seeds, mutations, test…
- llms.txtnouna proposed plain-text file placed at the root of a website that gives AI models a short, structured guide to the site's most…
- MLOpsnounthe practices and systems used to develop, test, package, deploy, monitor, govern, and update machine-learning models reliably in…
- model-agnostic architecturenountrendinga way of designing an AI application so that its underlying model or model provider can be evaluated, routed, or replaced without…
- neolabnountrendinga research-first AI startup organized around an ambitious, long-term technical program, often founded by experienced researchers…
- next edit predictionnountrendingan AI coding-assistant capability that predicts and proposes the developer's next logical code change, which may be an insertion…
- no-codeadjectivedescribing tools that let people build apps, websites, or automations through visual editors or plain language, without writing…
- one-person unicornnountrendinga proposed startup that reaches a valuation of at least one billion U.S. dollars with only one human founder, using AI agents and…
- pilot purgatorynountrendinga condition in which AI or digital-technology projects repeatedly reach the prototype or pilot stage but fail to become reliable…
- rate limitnouna cap on how many requests or tokens an account can send to an API in a given time
- repository-level code generationnountrendingAI-assisted creation or modification of software across an entire code repository, requiring the system to understand and…
- SDKnounsoftware development kit: a ready-made library that makes it easier to use an API from a particular programming language
- self-driving companynountrendinga company in which people set goals, exercise judgment, and remain accountable while AI agents independently carry out many of…
- slopsquattingnouna security attack in which someone registers a software package under a name that AI coding tools tend to hallucinate, so…
- slopwarenountrendinga disparaging term for low-quality, unreliable, insecure, or derivative software produced rapidly with heavy reliance on…
- spec-driven developmentnountrendingan AI-assisted software-development approach in which written requirements, designs, constraints, and acceptance criteria are…
- state-based evaluationnountrendinga method for evaluating an AI agent by comparing the final state and side effects of the environment it acted on with a specified…
- steering filenountrendinga persistent text file that supplies an AI coding assistant or agent with project context, conventions, constraints, or…
- streamingnounsending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so text appears on screen immediately instead of all at the end
- synthetic audiencenountrendinga group of AI-generated personas used to simulate how a target population might answer questions, react to a product or…
- vibe codingnountrendinga way of building software by describing what you want to an AI in plain language and accepting the code it writes, often without…
- vibe workingnounoffice work done by describing the result you want to an AI agent inside a document, spreadsheet, or presentation app and letting…
- wrappernoun(often dismissive) a product that is mainly a user interface around someone else's AI model, adding little technology of its own
- YOLO modenountrendinga setting or operating style in which an AI coding agent or other tool-using agent automatically approves and carries out actions…
- zero-click searchnountrendinga search where the user gets the answer directly on the results page, increasingly from an AI-written summary, and never clicks…
- zero-human companynountrendinga proposed or experimental company in which AI agents perform most recurring operations and day-to-day business tasks instead of…
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