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Re:Project Gemini by ChipopLeMoral on Monday November 17, 2025 @11:54AM (#45955419)
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.

Re:Project Gemini by morkalork on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:06PM (#45955550)
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 (#45955976)
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.
Re:Project Gemini by goatsi on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:55PM (#45956062)
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 (#45956404)
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 (#45960251)
Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.
Re:Project Gemini by mkoryak on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:24PM (#45955752)
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 (#45955865)
What happens to your go links when you leave Google?
Re:Project Gemini by kridsdale3 on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:46PM (#45955971)
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 (#45956039)
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.

Re:Project Gemini by kixiQu on Monday November 17, 2025 @02:07PM (#45956834)
An alternate take that I tend to agree with:

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