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weird names can be helpful

Gas Town has some really weird terms.

But that can be helpful! Like, nobody knows what an agent is, exactly. Feels like it's just an arbitrary AI unit that does stuff we like. But in Gas Town, the names are unambiguous, and force you to think hard to remember exactly what they are, so you don't have the opportunity to be lazy and hand wavy. By completely avoiding terms with unclear meanings, he owns the narrative.

Kubernetes is similar. You needed a kubernetes-glossary to keep stuff straight. Helm? Charts? What are these weird things?!? But that's just it! You don't know, so you better learn their exact definition! Then you will know!

So, Google has done weird naming before. And even recently... the wonderfully-named Nano Banana. Genius! I haven't looked into Agent development kit yet, but I suspect it's going to have normal names, and I'll ultimately be more confused over time because of it.