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    327 points andsoitis | 11 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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    netdevphoenix ◴[17 Nov 25 16:22 UTC] No.45955050[source]▶
    Why do programmers have so little imagination when it comes to names? It should almost never be the case that project names conflict
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    myaccountonhn ◴[17 Nov 25 16:23 UTC] No.45955065[source]▶
    Ask Google, this project predates the LLM.
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    1. ChipopLeMoral ◴[17 Nov 25 16:54 UTC] No.45955419[source]▶
    Back when I was a Googler, I used to play a little game where I would think of a random word and then check if there was a Google internal project code named for it. It was a bit hard finding stuff that wasn't some system or project, and often there would be multiple ones. I actually found one that I thought would be a nice name and reserved the go link for it, but naming anything after it never panned out, when I finally got to design a system from scratch my manager wanted a boring descriptive name like "consolidated data system" (it was a bit more specific but that was the vibe).

    Side note: I noticed that more "boring" and less sexy projects had cooler names a lot of the time, and my theory was that people were compensating for doing unsexy work.

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    2. morkalork ◴[17 Nov 25 17:06 UTC] No.45955550[source]▶
    Google eats their own with names. Their latest and greatest AI framewofk is Agent Development Kit (ADK). Not to be confused with the Android Development Kit...
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    3. mkoryak ◴[17 Nov 25 17:24 UTC] No.45955752[source]▶
    I reserved go/poop years ago, but the ability to name a project with that name is diminishing
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    4. ChipopLeMoral ◴[17 Nov 25 17:35 UTC] No.45955865[source]▶
    What happens to your go links when you leave Google?
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    5. kridsdale3 ◴[17 Nov 25 17:46 UTC] No.45955971{3}[source]▶
    This one is still up. I just checked it. I was underwhelmed by where it linked to.
    6. kridsdale3 ◴[17 Nov 25 17:47 UTC] No.45955976[source]▶
    At least the internal name of that kit is a cool name. So we should blame the Cloud marketing people who likely don't know about Android since they're Cloud people.
    7. mattlondon ◴[17 Nov 25 17:52 UTC] No.45956039[source]▶
    Please no more "Project Espresso" nonsense that is entirely meaningless to anyone reading this.

    Pick a descriptive name. Everyone else who is not in your team will thank you.

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    8. goatsi ◴[17 Nov 25 17:55 UTC] No.45956062[source]▶
    I remember a comment on here years ago from someone in GCP who mentioned that they did not control the "Cloud" namespace. So any VP could launch a new project and call it cloud something and make people very confused about why it wasn't showing up in the cloud dashboard and API.
    9. mitthrowaway2 ◴[17 Nov 25 18:29 UTC] No.45956404[source]▶
    Can't wait for Google to announce a humanoid robot project called "Google Android"...
    10. kixiQu ◴[17 Nov 25 19:07 UTC] No.45956834[source]▶
    An alternate take that I tend to agree with:

    https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-nam...

    11. InitialLastName ◴[18 Nov 25 01:02 UTC] No.45960251[source]▶
    Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.