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In case anyone else interprets this wrong: he means Proof of Concept code.
Your comment reminded me of this moment I had at an office lunch table:
Someone from sales: I've been having a terrible day, the P-O-C at {client company} is being annoying yadda yadda.....
Someone from HR: glaring, and taking mental notes.
Me, a dev: wondering how things could've gone wrong considering that we hadn't even shipped anything for them.
It took us all a moment to realize that "PoC " meant different things to each of us - Point of Contact, Person of Colour, and Proof of Concept. Somehow the salesperson could've been talking about any of those and it'd make, so none of us questioned ourselves first.
It's even funnier with "point of sale" machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌