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"Footgunning"?
A colloquial term equivalent to “shooting oneself in the foot”
A very clear answer
An explanatory sequence of words
Over-complication of 'sentence'
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoot_oneself_in_the_foot
AI loves to use the word. I never heard it regularly until AI started helping popularize it.
FWIW I've proudly been using it for years
Prove you haven't been an Ai for years
Shit
You're very right! There's a lot of reasons to believe I might be an AI, such as:
The verdict? I may in fact be an AI
Did this one achieve some intense introspection just now?
Then you did not speak with programmers regularly, I learned this term probably back in 2008ish