Ask HN: What verb best describes what a developer does in 2026?

3 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by jdlib

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4 Comments

JohnFen

8 hours ago

A developer develops.

I think "develops" is a decent verb for the activity and it doesn't imply any particular development method.

babakkarimib

9 hours ago

Technically, I contextualized. But I'd rather use I projected!

user

8 hours ago

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ThrowawayR2

8 hours ago

"Verbing weirds language", to quote the old C&H comic, but if "to Google" is now a legitimate verb, there's no reason "to LLM" can't become a legitimate verb. "Dilbert LLMed the new landing page yesterday afternoon and the PR is already up."