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Google and Microsoft continuing to prove that the hardest problem in programming is naming things.
by thewebguyd 1y ago
Google and Microsoft continuing to prove that the hardest problem in programming is naming things.
- blinding-streak 1y agoChatGPT is also a terrible name for a product. OpenAI's branding for their models is awful.
- nashashmi 1y agoThere are only so many words in the modern English language to hint at "next upgrade": pro, plus, ultra, new, advanced, magna, X, Z, and Ultimate. Even fewer words to explain miniaturized: mini, lite, and zero. And marketers are trying to seesaw on known words without creating new ones to explain new tech. This is why we have Bard and Gemini and Chat and Copilot. Taking a step back, it is overused exaggeration to the point where words run out quick and newer tech needs to fight with existing words for dominance. Copilot should be the name of an AI agent. Bard should have been just a text generator. Gemini is the name of a liar. Chat is probably the iphone of naming but the GPT suffix says Creativity had not come to work that day.
- SirMaster 1y agoGood thing we have a system called numbers that can easily designate an infinite range of greater and greater things.
- NitpickLawyer 1y agoHeh, you'd still get confusing stuff. Wait, is gemini 2.5.3.1 the math one or the erotica lit one?
- antonvs 1y agoThere are two different versions of that hard problem: the computer science version, and the marketing version. The marketing one has more nebulous acceptance criteria though.