Glossary, A–Z

Lexicon

A personal, opinionated dictionary of the terms this blog keeps returning to—read by concept.

Most cited term

Agentic

adj.—running toward a result, with steps you didn't specify.

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A C D E F H L M O P S T W

Agency

n.—the ability to act, decide, and move without waiting.

Antifragile

n.—the thing that gets stronger from the break.

Antigravity

n.—the moment a center of gravity stops being the only one.

Claw

n.—proof that history's biggest accidents rename themselves as they go.

Composable

n.—value that comes from the joint, not the parts.

Craft

n.—made by hand, in the oldest sense of the word.

Distributed

n.—distance as an asset, not a defect.

Ecosystem

n.—the house everyone lives in and no one owns.

Forge

n.—where the repo and the furnace are the same word.

Harness

n.—what survives when the model doesn't.

Legacy

n.—the hand that built it, still steering the machine.

Manufacture

n.—the hand the machine never quite replaces.

MCP

n.—the protocol that let a model ask a question instead of guessing.

Open-source

n.—generous by design, fragile by neglect.

Operating System

n.—whoever decides what runs first.

Pascal

n.—a machine for calculation, a method for uncertainty.

Shannon

n.—the man who measured meaning by how surprising it was.

Skills

n.—a tool with memory of how it's been used before.

Technical Debt

n.—what you didn't fix, now compounding with interest.

Tools

n.—cached intelligence for agents.

Workbench

n.—not where you launch tools. Where you leave intent running.