creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Are poets actually better at naming things? Or are they just more committed to their words and don't have consequences for poor naming?

Asking as someone who named something "urllib3" in 2007 and has to deal with this reality to this day lol.

I'd say people who deal with words - poets, being one of them (writers in general) are going to understand words a lot better than software engineers who don't think about the downstream consequences of emotional impact of memory, individually and collectively. So yeah, they probably would consider the weight that names have and take it seriously. 

example: for a non technical vibe coder - the difference between a well engineered product and vibe coded app is close to zero until they get into the details. same with naming.

A lifetime ago, I worked as an educator teaching English as a second language. I often found that students would try to translate words directly from their native language into English, relying on the first word in a dictionary definition without fully grasping the nuances and contextual differences that make English so complex.