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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 fo
by ChipopLeMoral 11mo ago
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.
- morkalork 11mo agoGoogle 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...
- kridsdale3 11mo agoAt 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.
- goatsi 11mo agoI 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.
- mitthrowaway2 11mo agoCan't wait for Google to announce a humanoid robot project called "Google Android"...
- InitialLastName 11mo agoTry being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.
- mkoryak 11mo agoI reserved go/poop years ago, but the ability to name a project with that name is diminishing
- ChipopLeMoral 11mo agoWhat happens to your go links when you leave Google?
- kridsdale3 11mo agoThis one is still up. I just checked it. I was underwhelmed by where it linked to.
- mattlondon 11mo agoPlease 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.
- kixiQu 11mo agoAn alternate take that I tend to agree with: https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-names-should-be-whimsical-and-cryptic-ca260b013de0 https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-nam...