Re:Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
by formerly_proven on Saturday May 30, 2026 @09:45AM
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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.
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Re:Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
by kstrauser on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:03PM
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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?
Re:Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
by homebrewer on Saturday May 30, 2026 @12:17PM
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It seems to be a widely repeated "fact" which can't be traced to anything particularly authoritative:
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.