mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding
AI coding jargon, explained in plain English.
About the project
A dictionary of AI coding jargon — model, context, tokens, MCP, hallucination — explained in plain English. For developers who want to understand how AI coding agents work and why they fail.
Useful for
- Look up terms like context window, harness, and MCP
- Explain to a colleague why an AI agent hallucinates or costs so much
- Use as a reference while reading AI tool documentation
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 30 stars today.
- Over the last two days the pace is 6.1× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #12, +207 stars.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 4,569
- Stars in a day
- 30
- Forks
- 527
- Issues and pull requests
- 30
- Watchers
- 35
- Language
- TypeScript
- Created
- May 1, 2026
- Last push
- July 2, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #12, +207 stars
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