Why does Microsoft always create so many ugly, confusing, and ridiculous product names? The worst of them all is ".Net" (which is really confusing).
Last Updated: 22.06.2025 13:54
But I mean, Microsoft was a pioneer in this field and is still the undisputed king of bad naming.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
They didn’t even bother to change the name. What the fuck, guys.
*drumroll*
When Google released the next version of Gemini 1.5 Pro, they called it Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 (I wish I was joking, but I’m not).
And when Anthropic released the successor to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they called it…
I’m running away I live in Indiana what states near by are safe I’m 12 no comments?
When OpenAI released their successor to GPT-4, they called it GPT-4o. Their next model after that was called o1.
It’s not just Microsoft. Look at the way top AI companies these days name their foundation models.
Keep in mind, though, there are only two hard problems in software: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.