alt Hacker NewsAnother one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.
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Mine is obsessed with "planes". Data plane, control plane, management plane. Everything is a plane :)
In my brief and abortive foray into education, I discovered that they friggin' love to use "surface" as a verb. As in: This activity surfaces an understanding of the turboencabulation principle for learners. Or somesuch. It's been a while, happily.
Unless you're a submarine, "surface" is not a verb.
Recently read some LLM generated output that mentioned the “center of gravity” within a codebase.
Also have read the term “seam” dozens of times by now, when previously I saw it maybe once or twice over years. Very abstract term.
That one probably comes from maths, where surfaces show up all the time in geometric interpretations of things. I've been involved in more mathsy parts of engineering and I've heard it a lot.
About a decade ago I worked with a product manager who used that phrasing constantly, so it kind of stuck with me.
Surface it to say, that's my favorite lobe-earing eggcorn, for all intensive purposes!
That is absolutely a normal thing to say