July
@july
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.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Like most things, there's a big element of sales/marketing in naming. I don't think this is a skill that poets are necessarily predisposed to. Neither are programmers. But it's a necessary skill to develop to survive as an independent creator: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x0f804c76
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July
@july
I think sales/marketing is a sort of short term timeline of naming things, but something that lasts longer requires a certain level of art, and creativity that goes beyond just business imo even if it is just a business
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Isn't that conflating static things with living things? Products and even variables in codebases are living changing things, they have to respond to the moment, they have to thrive or die, they have to be maintained by an everchanging group.
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