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netdevphoenix ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.45955065[source]
Ask Google, this project predates the LLM.
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ChipopLeMoral ◴[] 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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1. morkalork ◴[] 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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2. kridsdale3 ◴[] 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.
3. goatsi ◴[] 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.
4. mitthrowaway2 ◴[] No.45956404[source]
Can't wait for Google to announce a humanoid robot project called "Google Android"...
5. InitialLastName ◴[] No.45960251[source]
Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.