Glossary

A program with AI that does tasks on its own, like a helper: it answers a customer, fixes an order. It does not just talk; it does the task.

The little window two programs use to pass messages to each other. That is how your store tells your inventory that something sold, without anyone typing anything.

Something that happens on its own, without a person doing it by hand. Like a door that opens by itself when you walk up: an email arrives, and the system handles it without anyone touching it.

A network of computers spread around the world that keep copies of a website. When someone visits, they get the closest copy, so the page loads fast. Like selling the same ice cream from a shop in every neighborhood instead of one faraway factory.

A screen with the important numbers of a business, always up to date. Like a car dashboard: speed and fuel at a glance, but for your operation.

Publishing your changes so everyone can see them. Before, they only lived on your computer; after the deploy, they are on the internet.

The internet directory. You type enmanuelsaavedra.com and the DNS tells your browser which computer in the world that page lives on.

A kit for building programs, like a box of Legos: the pieces already come made, and you just build your own thing. Without a framework you would have to make every piece before you could start. This site is built with one called Astro.

The little padlock next to a page’s address. It means what you send and receive travels locked: if someone intercepts it along the way, they cannot read it.

Arranging the pieces of a page so it looks right: where the text goes, how big it is, how much space sits between things. Like arranging the furniture in a room: the same things, just well placed.

A way to write documents using only simple text. Its advantage: any program can read it, today and in twenty years.

Building programs without writing code: with visual tools or by asking an AI. This whole site was made that way.

A chain of connected steps: what comes out of one step goes into the next, like a miniature factory. In an image pipeline, a photo goes in raw on one side and comes out edited and ready on the other, untouched by anyone along the way.

What you write to an AI to ask for something. The clearer you ask, the better it answers.

A saved instruction that teaches an AI how to do a task, so it does it the same way every time.

The tools something was built with. Like asking what a cake is made of: flour, eggs, sugar. Here: which programs a system is made of.

The list of steps an automation follows, in order: first this, then that. Like a recipe the computer follows to the letter.