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shevy-java • today at 10:34 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I can not comment on the vibe coded issue or not, but the name Alprose is not really a surprising name at all.

Alps are "Die Alpen" in german, and rose is rose too. So, a rose or a flower in a mountaineous area. It kind of fits to Switzerland.

Renaming operations are often strange: for instance, the name Raider before it then became Twix. I always found the renaming part peculiar; guess Twix is easier to market than Raider but both names are strange to begin with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twix

I could also swear that Raider tasted better than Twix, but this could be to my aging cells no longer being as performant as they once were. Or they changed the recipe to the worse.

Having said that, I guess that website was AI slop generated, so no wonder it has low quality. I try to avoid AI in general, in particular the low quality slops; sadly youtube is being infected with it, I can no longer watch shorts - so many are just AI spam nowadays.


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mejutoco • today at 10:51 AM

> guess Twix is easier to market than Raider but both names are strange to begin with.

From your wikipedia link

> The name is a portmanteau of "twin sticks

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