> This isn’t whimsy; it’s how I remember who the work is actually for.

> These aren’t chatbots with personalities; they’re specialized configurations I invoke by name to focus my intent.

> That’s when I realized the naming wasn’t a quirk. It was a practice.

It is a quirk

> I’m not asking for a generic security scan. I’m saying that I need to look for what I missed.

You aren't asking for a generic security scan? It seems like you're asking for a generic security scan.

> I need to look for what I missed. I need to find the secret traveling farther than it should, the data leaking where it shouldn’t, the assumption I made that an attacker won’t make. I need to be paranoid on behalf of the users whose data and trust I’m protecting.

> The names aren’t just labels. They’re invocations. They shape my intent before the work even starts.

They are just labels.

The LLM loves to torture concepts into statements with pithy veneers and three-item. Punctuated. Lists. “Pain points” as an example, really? All of these terms are just more specific than the ones they’re contrasted with, which don’t have much of a human element to them to begin with.

The irony of bemoaning this while AI-mimicking a team of people and getting a computer to write for you in its own voice…

I don't know how effective it is, but I can't imagine this would undermine the quality of the output, so if it adds a little bit of humor and human-ness to my workflow, I'm happy to try it out.

As I've been asking Claude to "keep planning criticize ultrathink" very often and repeatedly, maybe I'll make a planning agent, one that helps me shepherd each plan well.

Makes sense to me…

But seriously, naming things is always a sticky wicket.

I tend to name my various devices as characters from Glen Cook’s The Black Company.

My iPhone is Thai Dei, my iPad is Soulcatcher, my Watch is Goblin, and my Mac is Mogaba. It helps me to keep them distinct from my simulators.

If I wanted really crazy names, I’d use Garret P.I. As a source.

Uh, yes it is? It's just whimsy with an explanation. Long live descriptive, preferably short, names.