--- title: The AI Phrasebook | daily.dev description: A satirical glossary mapping trendy AI/LLM terminology to their Unix and systems programming equivalents. Each AI buzzword — from 'agentic' to 'prompt... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-phrasebook-fomdtbnuo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The AI Phrasebook | daily.dev og:description: A satirical glossary mapping trendy AI/LLM terminology to their Unix and systems programming equivalents. Each AI buzzword — from 'agentic' to 'prompt... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-phrasebook-fomdtbnuo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/foMdtBnuO.png og:image:alt: The AI Phrasebook og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The AI Phrasebook **[Andrew Nesbitt](https://daily.dev/sources/nesbitt-io)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A satirical glossary mapping trendy AI/LLM terminology to their Unix and systems programming equivalents. Each AI buzzword — from 'agentic' to 'prompt injection' — is paired with a classic Unix concept, tool, or command, humorously suggesting that most AI innovations are just old ideas with new names. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > HTTP 418 can relax now that a 404 served with 200 has claimed the weird crown. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ten AI Phrases We Use Too Often](https://daily.dev/posts/ten-ai-phrases-we-use-too-often-0zsif8als) · SQL Authority · 6 upvotes · 2 comments - [The only AI glossary you'll need this year](https://daily.dev/posts/the-only-ai-glossary-you-ll-need-this-year-mewy6ddxs) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Crash Course: AI, ML, LLM and more](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-crash-course-ai-ml-llm-and-more-dduqcdz02) · Telerik · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI killed the user interface. 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