Elon Musk's simple test for whether to use an acronym: ask whether it helps or hurts communication. Acronyms that most engineers already know — like GUI — pass the test. Novel acronyms that force others to memorize and decode fail it, because every moment spent decoding is a moment stolen from understanding. The framework is binary, fast, and ruthlessly applied.
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