drink the Kool-Aid

expression

ops culture

To adopt a belief or technology with uncritical, group-driven enthusiasm.

Often said of teams that embrace a framework or methodology as dogma, past the point of honest evaluation. The phrase has a dark origin in the 1978 Jonestown deaths, so it carries an edge of warning about blind conviction even when used lightly in tech.

Also known as: drank the Kool-Aid

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