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...
Re:Project Gemini
by kridsdale3 on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:47PM
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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.
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.
Re:Project Gemini
by mitthrowaway2 on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:29PM
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Can't wait for Google to announce a humanoid robot project called "Google Android"...
Re:Project Gemini
by InitialLastName on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:02PM
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Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.
I reserved go/poop years ago, but the ability to name a project with that name is diminishing
Re:Project Gemini
by ChipopLeMoral on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:35PM
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What happens to your go links when you leave Google?
Re:Project Gemini
by kridsdale3 on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:46PM
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This one is still up. I just checked it. I was underwhelmed by where it linked to.
Re:Project Gemini
by mattlondon on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:52PM
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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.
An alternate take that I tend to agree with:
https://medium.com/better-programming/software-component-nam...
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.