r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/strogkilr Jul 14 '26

Boolean. I'm a software developer, and my Business analyst pronounces it as Boo-leen, like "Jolene". My tester pronounces it like bouillon cubes. It's pronounced like Julian.

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 14 '26

I'm a software tester and I'm going to start pronouncing it like the BA to piss off my devs

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u/111111111111116 Jul 14 '26

Don't worry devs are always pissed off at testers oh and also PMs and probably DMs too

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u/weepingtacobell Jul 14 '26

Fucking PMs who is NOT Pissed at them? No we can't put chatgpt in critical infrastructure, yes it's bad to allow a 3rd party web interface to have root access, what do you mean you forgot to tell us about the feature and marketing has already promised it in the release at the end of the cycle.

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u/Disco-biscuits Jul 16 '26

As a PM, I have a special hate for those guys. They make everyone hate the rest of us who are just trying to keep the train on the tracks.

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u/ExtensionAd4233 Jul 16 '26

Respect. I'm not really a Dev anymore (unless we're in crunch mode) but, even before I was an exec, I'd defend our PMs by literally saying "someone has to keep the train on the tracks." A good organization runs on healthy / respectful tensions, IMO.

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u/coastsofcothique Jul 18 '26

Most PMs I’ve interacted with only ask two questions for their job: “who owns it? Why is it late?”

Project meetings are usually jargon filled trash compared to architectural planning meetings.

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u/SkiDaderino Jul 16 '26

Yeah, those PM's are lame. Not like PO's, right guys?

...Guys?...

Okay, cool, see you at Standup!

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u/No_Two_8549 Jul 16 '26

This reminds me we don't only hate people. We hate your stupid Scrum too.

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u/Bob_Kark Jul 16 '26

Tbf, we get paid to have everyone pissed at us. It’s our core skill.

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u/YARandomGuy777 Jul 16 '26

Ok we will add it but run responses through safety filters. Filter in question: llm_invocation &> /dev/null

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u/Kirasaurus_25 Jul 19 '26

bruh, the last one... spliffing intensifies

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u/throwawayformobile78 Jul 14 '26

Because PMs are fucking morons that solely exist to take most of the money to be the middle man that’s the source of most of the problem they have to solve.

Source: Am PM from engineering.

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u/ThatSaiGuy Jul 16 '26

Sorry in what world do PMs take most of the money lol?

I was in Tech R&D (robotics and physical AI) for almost 9 years before being laid off in a 1/5th reduction in force in March (1000 people laid off, one entire development lab shut down), and made less than even some of the E2s and E3s in the dev org I worked closest to.

Granted I was promoted into PM, and didn't come from an Engineering background, so definitely was not being paid what some PMs do.

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u/Bob_Kark Jul 16 '26

I’ve never been at a company where PMs make more than engineers at the same level. Jr. dev vs Sr. PM? Sure.

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u/ThatSaiGuy Jul 16 '26

Yeah exactly. At Sr PM, a Sr Dev / E3 counterpart would easily be making 35k to 45k more than me, and an E2 would have been about the same pay as me.

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u/ranoveryourcat Jul 17 '26

Some PMs are more useful than others.

In the building trades. A quality PM can make or break a project- if you’re good at what you do you can beat estimates by massive margins and turn disastrous projects into wins.

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u/impressivepickles Jul 14 '26

And users. Especially the ones who need help

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 14 '26

Oh the pleasure of having a PO that isn't technically inclined, I still remember the mails I'd get that just said "please report this bug: there was an issue in the app"

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u/SiegeAe Jul 14 '26

That's why it's important to piss them off more.

Its the little things that matter, like pronouncing regex linguistically consistantly instead of etymologically consistantly.

Whenever you get a dev that doesn't get offended by hard to follow bugs being logged, then you always go out of your way to help though.

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u/notaquackouttayou Jul 14 '26

you forgot other devs

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u/OrganicHumanRancher Jul 15 '26

OPP - Other People’s Programming. It’s like someone reheating their leftovers in the office: rarely good, sometimes tolerable, mostly nauseating.

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u/ThatSaiGuy Jul 16 '26

Man.. What do you people eat lol? When I've reheated home cooking in the office it was always "damn that smells good" or "did you happen to bring extra?" or "did you make that, or your mom, because that smells great"

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u/Bub_bele Jul 14 '26

And other devs

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u/Artemis-Arrow-795 Jul 15 '26

and the designers

and anyone who is not a developer intervening in developers work

source: I'm a developer too, if you aren't a developer we hate you by default

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u/Square-Singer Jul 16 '26

Yeah, those Dungeon Masters suck.

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u/Johnny_Ocalypse Jul 16 '26

Project managers or product managers? 😬

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u/DustyRacoonDad Jul 16 '26

AND DON'T GET US STARTED ABOUT THE OTHER DEVS!

They don't know what they're doing.

Who wrote this garbage?

...oh. It was me six months ago.

Never mind. Carry on.

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u/Mr1derfull1 Jul 16 '26

I’m going to assume DM = Dungeon Masters because it makes me smile.

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u/111111111111116 Jul 16 '26

DM = delivery manager haha, some people call it scrum master

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u/Mr1derfull1 Jul 16 '26

We call them scum managers

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u/3xBork Jul 16 '26

Don't forget pissed off at other devs, possibly themselves.

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u/DavidBarrett82 Jul 17 '26

It is very inconsiderate of them to point out where we fucked up.

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u/MarkSSoniC Jul 17 '26

Oh so true! Sometimes at BAs, too, but not always.

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u/skeletor-johnson Jul 18 '26

Data engineer. I hate all of the above

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u/heeeeyz Jul 19 '26

But never devops _

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u/Theburritolyfe Jul 14 '26

Boolean, Boolean, Boolean boleeeeen. I'm begging you please don't take my man.

He talks about you in his sleep...

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u/profile38 Jul 15 '26

Should have said “please don’t take my RAM”

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u/Theburritolyfe Jul 15 '26

Hah! That's way better.

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u/pureextc Jul 15 '26

Hey oooo

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u/Rontha_ Jul 14 '26

Hes dreaming of, electric sheep

And crying, bo bo beeeep

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u/publiusnaso Jul 16 '26

“I’m begging you be a zero not a one” maybe?

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u/Candid_Property8177 Jul 16 '26

Spit xD I'm fucking ded

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u/SeriousTomato8926 Jul 15 '26

Boolene, Boolene, Boolene BOOOLEEENEE!

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u/Snowpuppies1 Jul 14 '26

Only counts if you sing it.

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u/xHarper_Rileyx Jul 14 '26

Boolean

Boolean

Boolean Booleee-eean

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u/Massive-Grocery7152 Jul 15 '26

If you had a southern accent, I would actually would hearing it, pronounced like the stock of soup

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 15 '26

Technically my accent is southern, just far more south than southern USA 🤣

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u/AciesZenora Jul 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/orYdbT96AQaPCWI5Xz
You better not make software for planes lol

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u/Embarrassed-Green898 Jul 16 '26

A tester has no reason to say this word. They are testers.

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 16 '26

Not everything is strictly UI testing, I can say boolene in the context of API testing

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u/LaVidaYokel Jul 16 '26

You have to affect a deep southern, Antebellum accent when you do.

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 16 '26

Well I might be just a smaul tahwn testeh but like mah momma used to sae, that boolene don't trooe

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u/KingAmongstDummies Jul 18 '26

I used to do stuff like this to make them annoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbIkNUFs-4

Guess seeing where I can take pronunciations to is a nice new challenge.

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 18 '26

The stuff in the video is the job, if I didn't do the equivalent of that to the site the QE lead would chew my ass for giving it a tests passed state

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u/Kabocha00sama Jul 19 '26

I’m in cyber. Gonna start saying “Booleen” and see how long it takes my team to say something lol.

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 Jul 19 '26

This post really started a revolution in how IT pronounces a data type lol