Steve Yegge on the 'thermonuclear' tweet that killed the MANGOS acronym hysteria
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-11-14
Technologist Steve Yegge looks back at the death of the post-FAANG acronym hysteria: tech bigwigs and even billionaires had been hyping 'MANGOS' until a 'thermonuclear banger' of a tweet — quoted from Tiffany Fong's 'the new world order' — instantly ended it. 'Nobody ever, ever mentioned it again.'
A slice of AI-industry lore about how quickly insider memes can collapse.
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