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I feel bad for people with the real name Claude.

formerly_proven 5mo ago
It took me quite some time to realize what an utterly presumptuous product name Claude Code actually is, but only because Shannon is rarely mentioned with his first name. It's golden calf levels of hubris, even more so if you consider how incapable it was on release. It's like renaming calc.exe Einstein. Incredibly poor taste, but entirely in line with AI tech bro mentality.
- kstrauser 5mo ago
  That linkage never occurred to me, or, I suspect, them. Claude use to be a reasonably common name. I have an uncle Claude. Why do you believe they named it after Shannon in particular?
  - homebrewer 5mo ago
    It seems to be a widely repeated "fact" which can't be traced to anything particularly authoritative: https://archive.is/pt5fQ https://archive.is/pt5fQ https://britannica.com/topic/Claude-AI https://britannica.com/topic/Claude-AI Looks like the 2023 NYT article started it, and it uses this as reference: > depending on which employee you ask, was either a nerdy tribute to the 20th-century mathematician Claude Shannon Personally I always associated it with the silent protagonist from GTA3. https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude
- bombcar 5mo ago
  Salesforce spent some amount of money to license the name Einstein from his estate/heirs.
xp84 5mo ago
Yeah, and we thought the most unlucky people were the ones named Alexa.
- SoftTalker 5mo ago
  Or those named Karen...
  - janussunaj 5mo ago
    Rajesh here
    - hideout_berlin 5mo ago
      ferdinand here
- grishka 5mo ago
  Or Alisa
1over137 5mo ago
Yeah, especially since most Americans don't know how to properly pronounce Claude.
- txru 5mo ago
  Hmm, Claude Shannon was an American (the model is ostensibly named after him), so maybe how he pronounced it would be the correct pronunciation. That said, every language on earth will adapt foreign words into its phonology. The alternative would be to adopt the phonology of every language that loaned a word into your language.
cozzyd 5mo ago
I think it would be funny to have a grad student named Claude for the hilarious ambiguity it would create.
- hideout_berlin 5mo ago
  i want to name my new born claude
queuebert 5mo ago
I don't know, Claude Shannon did okay.
- michaelcampbell 5mo ago
  Presumably a bunch of Adolf's did too, prior to, you know, the 1930's.

It took me quite some time to realize what an utterly presumptuous product name Claude Code actually is, but only because Shannon is rarely mentioned with his first name. It's golden calf levels of hubris, even more so if you consider how incapable it was on release. It's like renaming calc.exe Einstein. Incredibly poor taste, but entirely in line with AI tech bro mentality.

kstrauser 5mo ago
That linkage never occurred to me, or, I suspect, them. Claude use to be a reasonably common name. I have an uncle Claude. Why do you believe they named it after Shannon in particular?
- homebrewer 5mo ago
  It seems to be a widely repeated "fact" which can't be traced to anything particularly authoritative: https://archive.is/pt5fQ https://archive.is/pt5fQ https://britannica.com/topic/Claude-AI https://britannica.com/topic/Claude-AI Looks like the 2023 NYT article started it, and it uses this as reference: > depending on which employee you ask, was either a nerdy tribute to the 20th-century mathematician Claude Shannon Personally I always associated it with the silent protagonist from GTA3. https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude
bombcar 5mo ago
Salesforce spent some amount of money to license the name Einstein from his estate/heirs.

xp84 5mo ago

Yeah, and we thought the most unlucky people were the ones named Alexa.

SoftTalker 5mo ago
Or those named Karen...
- janussunaj 5mo ago
  Rajesh here
  - hideout_berlin 5mo ago
    ferdinand here
grishka 5mo ago
Or Alisa

1over137 5mo ago

Yeah, especially since most Americans don't know how to properly pronounce Claude.

txru 5mo ago
Hmm, Claude Shannon was an American (the model is ostensibly named after him), so maybe how he pronounced it would be the correct pronunciation. That said, every language on earth will adapt foreign words into its phonology. The alternative would be to adopt the phonology of every language that loaned a word into your language.

cozzyd 5mo ago

I think it would be funny to have a grad student named Claude for the hilarious ambiguity it would create.

hideout_berlin 5mo ago
i want to name my new born claude

queuebert 5mo ago

I don't know, Claude Shannon did okay.

michaelcampbell 5mo ago
Presumably a bunch of Adolf's did too, prior to, you know, the 1930's.