I feel bad for people with the real name Claude.

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

Or those named Karen...

Rajesh here

ferdinand here

Or Alisa

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.

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?

It seems to be a widely repeated "fact" which can't be traced to anything particularly authoritative:

https://archive.is/pt5fQ

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

Salesforce spent some amount of money to license the name Einstein from his estate/heirs.

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

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.

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

i want to name my new born claude

I don't know, Claude Shannon did okay.

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

Thanks for the heads-up! I wasn't aware that Tridge is using Claude. I shall use Openrsync from now on.

How about the attempt to avoid things that use AI promiscuously and start exhibiting bugs? :-(

Push for better guardrails and QA structures. Avoidance helps nobody in the long run, and isn't possible anyway without going completely cold turkey. Like literally in a few months every project worth using will directly or indirectly involve AI.

> Avoidance helps nobody in the long run

What the hell? That’s the job.

Today. the projects that are using AI are the ones that are becoming not worth using, eg. rsync introducing tens of thousands of lines of unreviewed code causing regressions. What do you suppose will completely reverse the trendline in the next few months, to make AI go from making projects actively less valuable to being the "only" projects worth using? Trust me bro vibes? I have low trust for trust me bro vibes, because I've been hearing that AI will replace me "in a few months" every single month for the past two and a half years.

Wasting their precious limited time on this planet for performative hand wringing.

AI is only going to get better and better. Eventually manually writing software by hand with programming languages will be thought of as the punch-card phase of software development.

Do these people think we'll be writing software in 200 years time? That anybody will be maintaining rsync, let alone this "moral human hands only" version of it?

The anti-AI lot are trying to make all AI content wear a Scarlett letter. I wish they would wear one themselves so that we could filter them from our timeline.

This "effort" is entirely wasted.

Ask your AI girlfriend how "performative" is usually used. AI boosters here are really deranged and dumb.

What "effort" do you make? I'm sure you only produce SEO slop garbage.

Your booster efforts are wasted.

It is not "performative hand wringing" to observe that a tool sucks and to reject its use. You cannot, at present, write quality software with AI tools. At best you get something you could've made yourself, slower than you could've made it yourself. Only a fool insists on using a tool when it has been proven to not work.

Unsure what you mean by "quality", but I've personally created projects using AI which work to my satisfaction, and which I didn't make "myself" as I considered it to be too much manual work for not enough benefit. Now using it for even greater things. The tool works fine once you've learned how to use it.

> proven to not work.

what twitter account proved that?

This is a recent trend in open-source though:

- people avoiding systemd like it's the plague

- people avoiding wayland because it is devil's work

- people avoiding rsync because someone used AI on the testcases

- ...