Jargon Doesn't Make You Senior

I asked one of my tech leads to demo the latest work to a cross-functional group. Business stakeholders. UX. Product. Engineering. The work deserved the room's attention. His team had built out a component library using Storybook to streamline the design-to-development workflow. Designers could see exactly what engineers had built. Engineers could build exactly what designers intended. Handoff time dropped. Misinterpretations between the two disciplines that used to create entire cycles of rework were gone. But he told the story in engineering. He kept referencing technical implementation details that sounded impressive from a developer's perspective but meant nothing to half the room. Contracts. CI/CD pipelines. Caching layers. Things that mattered deeply to how the work was built. Things that had zero relevance to why it was built or what it meant for the business. The business side nodded politely. UX checked out. Product was trying to translate in real time. And the actual impact o