Do You Speak Geek? 5 Tech Terms That Endure, and 5 That Got Defragged - CNET
Real talk: I’m not that up to speed on today’s tech vocabulary. That realization clocked me over the head this week when the Scotland-based Collins dictionary came out with its list of new and notable words for 2026. The words include p(doom), which refers to the probability of AI-caused doom; mogging, meaning to outshine or upstage someone; friendslop, a type of low-budget video game played among friends; and ghost jobs, jobs advertised with no real position or intent to hire someone.
Vibe-coding, which was Collins’ Word of the Year for 2025, refers to a conversational way to teach an AI model without typing in all that pesky code. Enshittification, which the American Dialect Society chose as its 2023 Word of the Year, means the gradual, profit-driven decline in the quality of, well, I guess, everything.
Maybe you know and use these terms regularly; maybe you don’t....
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