I built the claude code clone at a big EU corp. My code is over a year old and has 'orchestrator', 'watchdog', 'validator' etc.

I used Claude to help build, and went along with its suggested terminology, so, there is a lot of 'terminology leak' from the models as you use them. Probably why the terms are the same, helps the models integrate better with your own custom harness.

How embarrassing for them both. You should figure out who initially coined the word "project" so Anthropic, Cursor, and everyone else who has used the term since can go apologize.

Funny coincidence, I’ve worked in projects with coordinators for longer than either company has existed.