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Once again the one of the hardest problems in software engineering is naming things.

Solved by namespaces

Is it a bad name?

See also: Meta

Lots of things predate Meta (Facebook) and Copilot (Microsoft), but the new thing muscled its way in and now anything that already had those names will struggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4spxWgms1c

A recent stack overflow bikeshed asked why Firefox refers to it's UI elements by the name of Google's browser.

It clashes with the AI code writing tool of the same name.

This predates the AI thing by years.

Then the AI code writing tool should be criticized instead.

Which came first?

The egg.

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