Non-technical folks casually dropping 'RAG' and 'fine-tuning': AI jargon spreads faster than understanding
datawithsuman · x · 2026-09-25
Data professional datawithsuman observes a corporate phenomenon: people with no technical background casually throwing around 'RAG,' 'embeddings,' 'context window,' 'fine-tuning,' and 'attention mechanism' as if they'd been building models for years.
Not against learning in public, he notes how fast the jargon has spread compared to actual understanding — a telling slice of AI-era corporate culture.
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