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Naming things is such a hard problem that many devs don't even bother trying.

That being said, this post is full of reasonable assertions, so I'm looking forward to experimenting with this... whatever it is.



Wait, shit, are people using LLMs to name things now? I'm definitely out of a job then!


I'm notorious for taking poetic license with naming—that's how we end up with `class Escutcheon`, or variables `recto` and `verso` where applicable in eg PDF generation.

But as much pleasure as I derive from novelty and specificity, my colleagues have oft expressed perplexity—whereas the terms which LLMs produce hew closer to the manifold (by definition!) and raise fewer eyebrows.

So, it has its turn.


Naming things is my principal use for AI, I don't always pick a name from the suggested ones but it sure help me find better ones.




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