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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works -3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

How is that faster than just picking a random name? Noone picks software based on name.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

And yet virtually all of software has names that took some thought, creativity, and/or have some interesting history. Like the domain name of your Lemmy instance. Or Lemmy.

And people working on something generally want to be proud of their project and not name it the first thing that comes to mind, but take some time to decide on a name.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldnt they also not want to take a random name off an AI generated list? How is that something to be proud of? The thought, creativity, and history behind it is just that you put a query into chatgpt and picked one out of 500 names?

Maybe its just a difference of perspective but thats not only not a special origin story for a name, its taking from others in a way you won't be able to properly credit them, which is essential to me.

I would rather avoid the trouble and spend the time with a coworker or friend throwing ideas back and forth and building an identity intentionally.

I suppose AI could be nice if I was alone nearly all the time.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The process of throwing ideas back and forth usually doesn't include just choosing one, but generating ideas as jumping off points, usually with some existing concept in mind. Talking with friends, looking at other projects, searching for inspiration online and in the real world, and now also generating some more ideas with an LLM to add to the mix. Using one source and just picking a suggestion probably won't get you a good result.