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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by PunchTornado on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:42AM (#50480811)
why are 50 comments about naming? why do people care about it? i've never been bothered by naming.
Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by Marczelloni on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:44AM (#50480832)
I think we're all a little neurodivergent round here. For me- it really bothers me, like... you have a bilion dollar product you've spent countless resources on and you botched the naming... you might as well made a typo in it and call it "Cabron"
Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by vander_elst on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:34AM (#50482628)
For me is because I prefer having a mental model so that I can immediately understand what to expect from a model instead of having to remember every model as a single separate instance.

E.g. I know what to expect from the sonnet vs opus families, so if I read sonnet 4.6 and opus 5.5 I know to which generation they belong and what kind of general capabilities they could offer. if I read opus 9.2 I know something is off. I guess, it helps me organize my thoughts.

With names from Google, if I where to read Gemini Helios, or Gemini Iron I would have no idea how they fit the bigger picture.