# mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.4 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 4,747 total · +1 star on 2026-09-24 (UTC), ≈ 6 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Learning & lists · Language: TypeScript · Created: 2026-05-01 · Last push: 2026-07-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/mattpocock/dictionary-of-ai-coding

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 6 expected by the end of the day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 30% of the previous week and a half.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 543
- Issues and pull requests: 30
- Watchers: 37
- Average over the last week: 13 per day
- Usual pace: 34 per day

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-13 4.7, 09-14 3.7, 09-15 2.5, 09-16 2.0, 09-17 1.9, 09-18 1.9, 09-19 1.7, 09-20 1.8, 09-21 1.8, 09-22 1.5, 09-23 1.5, 09-24 1.5

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 10:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.