| ▲ | aeternum 5 hours ago |
| Product leaders that apply world-changing technology breakthrough names to their yet-another cloned SaaS product deserve more shame. Antigravity would be a world-changing technology. This isn't. |
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| ▲ | crazygringo 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Why? There's nothing wrong with metaphor. And agentic coding is about working at a much higher conceptual level. Further from the ground. Antigravity is a functional metaphor. My only issue with it is that it's too long at five syllables, and "anti-" is an inherently negative connotation. I'm guessing this will eventually get renamed if it gets popular, much like Bard was. |
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| ▲ | brazukadev 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They should not be too metaphorical when naming a clone, tho. | | | |
| ▲ | nonameiguess 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As the parent said, actual anti-gravity is world-changing technology. It's telling the very laws of nature to go fuck themselves, you're gonna do what you want, even if all of known physics says it's impossible. Working at a higher conceptual level is just project management. You're the legislator giving out unfunded mandates rather than the agency staff that has to figure out how to comply. There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That said, I suspect this is really meant to allude to https://xkcd.com/353/. | | |
| ▲ | crazygringo 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity. That's why it's metaphor. "Operation Warp Speed" also delivered vaccines quickly, but not faster than the speed of light. The list of company and product names that are based on a metaphor that is very obviously exaggerated is endless. Google doesn't index a googol number of pages either. | | |
| ▲ | bflesch 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I feel it's a bit ignorant of you to double down on your argument and compare a cloned product release by some macbook swinging google engineers with vaccination, which actually positively impacted many human lives. | | |
| ▲ | crazygringo 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are you for real? When someone disagrees, it's not "ignorance" or "doubling down". It's just legitimate disagreement. There's nothing I'm ignorant of here, so please don't throw around insults like that. I just continue to stand by the fact that naming products using exaggerated metaphor is standard practice. The idea that it is "shameful" or "ignorant" seems absurd. I think it's OK not to take it too seriously. Nobody is going to be confused and walk off of a cliff or something because the product is named "antigravity"... Do you get upset that the Milky Way candy bar doesn't actually contain a galaxy within? Or that the Chicago Bulls aren't as strong as actual bulls? |
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| ▲ | stavros 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Wait until you see Google Perpetual Motion Machine, their appointment-booking virtual assistant. |
