Every tweak needs a new acronym: SDRRELM meme pokes fun at AI naming culture
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-01
A developer on X satirized the AI community's naming culture, arguing that every "new" idea is an old concept reinvented and christened with a fresh acronym. He jokingly proposed putting everything on the filesystem — small context, big filesystem — and named it "Super Duper Recursively Recursive Evolutionary Language Models" (SDRRELMs).
The punchline: every little tweak needs a new acronym and a new Chinese author, a jab at the field's terminology inflation and paper-chasing habits.
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