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laweijfmvotoday at 12:46 AM10 repliesview on HN

Why in the world of all bad naming would they choose the two letters that abbreviate one of their largest competitors product


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saghmtoday at 1:29 AM

My first thought was the irony of something used to interface with models that were trained on data that was presumably not properly licensed having the same name as the Creative Commons abbreviation.

ccimnuojftoday at 1:12 AM

It's pretty obvious the name comes from the email cc: field

Non-tech people who this is targeted at don't know what Claude Code is.

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giancarlostorotoday at 1:34 AM

Same energy as calling YouTube Premium YouTube Red.

txhwindtoday at 2:04 AM

I guess they want to use the email CC concept showing the agent is a side assistant.

layer8today at 12:58 AM

By that measure, every email client is promoting Claude Code. ;)

Retr0idtoday at 12:53 AM

And it's not even a CC-like, it's a claw-like, afaict?

keel-controltoday at 1:25 AM

it's ridiculously bad

some_furrytoday at 1:35 AM

What is Google's CC supposed to even stand for?

Carbon Copy? As in, a rip-off?

Whatever hellhole committee named this did a poor job.

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ValentineCtoday at 1:48 AM

Also, another unsearchable name, just like Go.

I guess people will be searching for "CC agent" or something.