FortyAU refers to 40 Astronomical Units — 5.98 × 1012 meters — the distance Voyager 1 was from Earth when it turned to take the photograph Carl Sagan wrote about in the Pale Blue Dot.
As consultants, we zoom in and out often, weighing the bigger business problem while writing the individual lines of code that solve it. That perspective shapes how we work: with the humility to listen, and the empathy to understand what our code actually means for the people using it.