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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: 23.06.2025 02:11

Why does Microsoft always create so many ugly, confusing, and ridiculous product names? The worst of them all is ".Net" (which is really confusing).

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).

Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

They didn’t even bother to change the name. What the fuck, guys.

Do dogs feel love?

Keep in mind, though, there are only two hard problems in software: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

*drumroll*

But I mean, Microsoft was a pioneer in this field and is still the undisputed king of bad naming.

Do you believe that the portrayal of smoking in films and music videos contributes to the glamorization of cigarettes in society?

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.

And when Anthropic released the successor to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they called it…

What does it mean for a model to be a "non-chain-of-thought" model?