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This has got to be the worst project name I've seen all year.

I think the name probably has to do with this research from Microsoft (same people involved and a lot of similarities in the way it's conceived.

HyDRA: Hybrid Dynamic Routing Architecture for Heterogeneous LLM Pools : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17106

Seems more like many heads -> one head and someone thinking it's clever.

But could be your thing too obviously.

Considering the people thanked in the article are the same who wrote the paper I linked, and the similar mechanisms, it's more than likely

Why? I feel it kinda implies what the approach is. Could definitely be worse, strongly prefer this over just giving the thing a random-ass name like Laguna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(comics)

Hydra (sometimes stylized as HYDRA) is a fictional terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.[…] Hydra is taken over and turned into a neo-fascist international crime syndicate by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.

With all due respect, but I'm not letting some newfangled comic taint/monopolize a perfectly usable name that's been used to describe many-headed-thing (water snake) for over two millennia.

I think the problem here is that we're running out of names. Which is ironic after calling everything copilot or office 365

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