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Apparently that's Codium, who have recently renamed themselves to Qodo: https://www.qodo.ai/blog/introducing-qodo-a-new-name-the-sam... (TIL)

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It seems like their new name is literally "Qodo (formerly Codium)", parenthetical included. At first I thought they were just including it in the blog post for clarity, but they literally write it out that way a dozen times. It's also included as part of their new logo and in the site title.

I've never seen anything like that before. It feels like a search+replace operation gone awry.

Why is "Qodo" "better" than "Codium"?

Not sure maybe they felt like SEO results would rank VS Codium over it?

no theres another series b startup codeium that they get confused for all the time. we talked to both

- https://latent.space/p/codium-agents

- https://latent.space/p/varun-mohan

Huh, look at that. I completely mixed them up too. Thankfully they have an article which "helpfully" clarifies things:

> We’ve noticed that there’s been some confusion between our company, Codium (now Qodo (formerly Codium)), and another company, Codeium.

https://www.qodo.ai/blog/codiumai-or-codeium-which-are-you-l...

"How to Distinguish Between Codium (now Qodo (formerly Codium)) and Codeium"

dear god

Hey, X (formerly Twitter) is clearly doing great and was a good branding change that makes sense and is reasonable.

Should have bought the quibi name.

Maybe it’s a joke? Like “X, formerly Twitter” or “Ye, formerly Kanye”, or even “the artist formerly known as Prince”.

SEO reasons maybe?

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