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It's gross that this has a person's first name. How dehumanizing that will be for real Devins as this kind of thing becomes productized. How tempting to compare
by easeout 2y ago
It's gross that this has a person's first name. How dehumanizing that will be for real Devins as this kind of thing becomes productized. How tempting to compare yourself to a "teammate" your employer pays a cloud tenant subscription for.
- fragmede 2y agoThe Alexa and Siri's of the world feel their pain. you want something unique but not too unique as to be weird. I work with like 6 Matts.
- aeze 2y agoOdd take. There are plenty of products, restaurants and services that use a first name as their name. I don't think it's a big deal, or negative at all.
- laurent_du 2y ago"Devin" is a substantive which is used as a first name in the Celtic world. Pretty sure it's used here because of its meaning.
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- mellosouls 2y agoIt's a reference to Devin, one of the earlier (and most hyped) "autonomous" ai-agent-based software devs that it attempts to replicate/match in the open. Your interestingly different ire would be better-directed at the original project. https://www.cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin https://www.cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin Previous discussions on that fwiw include: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679787
- krageon 2y agoIs it dehumanising to give a dog a name that a person could have?