Stop naming your AI bots Jim and Pam: dev begs for functional bot names
DavidWells · x · 2026-09-16
Developer David Wells vents about AI products naming bots nebulous human names: "Jim is my bot for this, Dwight for that, Pam, she's a sweetheart." Every name forces you to memorize what it actually does.
His advice: name bots what they do. He compares bot anthropomorphism to modern business acronyms and says stop it.
A real workflow-design pain point: names are documentation, especially when you run many agents.
Related event: Developer slams AI products for giving bots confusing human names(2 posts)→
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