the naming problem is real but it is also a symptom of shipping the autocomplete product before having a coherent agent story. github copilot was a code completion tool for 2-3 years before the ‘AI assistant everywhere’ branding happened. now the name has to cover everything from tab completion to autonomous coding agents to M365 assistants, and the only thing they have in common is they all send something to an LLM.

hard to name a category that broad in a way that means anything.