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halfmatthalfcat | on: GPT-6.1 Terra
> If you have suggestions on how to name our products better, I'm all ears.

For some reason, this is just hilarious to me. Idk if you're being serious or if this is passive aggressive but the thought of OAI actually taking advice from a random HNer and basing their naming scheme off that is peak.

jaggederest | parent
This is one of the last bastions of semi-serious discussion on the internet, and it's full of incredibly high level engineering talent.

Where else would you go? I'm honestly scratching my head thinking of someplace that wouldn't run you out on a rail, but that would give serious feedback. Kernel mailing lists are out, maybe there's something like that which I can't remember off the top of my head, but...

Also, nomenclature is incredibly hard. There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache expiration and naming things.

halfmatthalfcat | root | parent
That’s the issue - this isn’t an engineering problem, it’s a general consumer problem. It’s what focus groups full of regular people are for.
jaggederest | root | parent
But regular people are not the consumers of OpenAI's API - they consume "Chatgpt" and don't care about model nomenclature.

The primary users of any API are the designers and engineers of the applications that use it. How many laypeople know what Postgresql is? How many of the applications they use run on it?

halfmatthalfcat | root | parent
We aren't talking about the API. We're talking about the model names. If someone fires up the OpenAI website to ask it a question, nobody knows what the names mean. That's what normal people do and are probably super confused at what is going on.