Culture & Slang
Language AI creates around itself.
Informal, cultural, workplace, and internet-native expressions that describe behaviors or phenomena emerging around AI. Examples include AI Slop, Meat Proxy, and Vibe Coding.
EpochLex · Dictionary of the AI Era
Categories
EpochLex uses four broad categories to make a fast-moving vocabulary easier to understand without pretending every term fits into only one box.
Ways of Working
How people work with AI.
Terms describing collaboration patterns, prompting methods, and human-AI workflows such as Copilot, Few-Shot, Human-in-the-Loop, and Prompt Engineering.
Systems & Technical
How AI systems work.
Technical vocabulary for models, architectures, interfaces, and computational concepts including Agentic, Context Window, MCP, RAG, Token, and Tool Calling.
Risks & Governance
Where AI requires caution and accountability.
Terms connected to safety, security, governance, reliability, and organizational risk, such as AI Washing, Hallucination, Prompt Injection, and Shadow AI.
Why terms may appear in more than one category
AI language does not always respect neat boundaries. A term such as Vibe Coding can be both cultural slang and a way of working. EpochLex allows multiple categories when doing so better reflects how a term is actually used.
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