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ChipopLeMoral 13 hours 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.

mkoryak 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I reserved go/poop years ago, but the ability to name a project with that name is diminishing

ChipopLeMoral 12 hours ago | parent [-]

What happens to your go links when you leave Google?

kridsdale3 12 hours ago | parent [-]

This one is still up. I just checked it. I was underwhelmed by where it linked to.

morkalork 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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...

mitthrowaway2 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can't wait for Google to announce a humanoid robot project called "Google Android"...

InitialLastName 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.

goatsi 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

kridsdale3 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

mattlondon 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please 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 11 hours ago | parent [-]

An alternate take that I tend to agree with:

https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-nam...