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by embedding-shape 3 days ago
> Yeah, we did the same thing when designing our house almost ten years ago now, using a HTC Vive running https://irisvr.com/prospect/

Coincidentally enough, author of the submission ended up calling their thing "Prospector"

> After some intense typing with a combination of Claude and Codex over the course of a morning I had something I was pretty happy with. I named it Prospector (can’t remember why) and I’ve been really happy with it.

I can't help but think that the author asked the LLM for suggestions on the name, and Prospector/Prospect was recommended as it was so similar to an existing thing, but I might be reading too much into it.
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hbn 3 days ago
The fact he even said "can't remember why" makes me think he's fully aware and it's a joke

Prospector could even be interpreted/spelled as Prospecter, -er as in "more/better than Prospect"

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