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Yes... they chose to give the tool a male name. Did this need to be said ?
Yes, because the person I was replying to said:
"Casual gendering" is implying the Vim author calling Claude "he" was totally out of the blue. It's not "casual"; it's something Anthropic baked in by giving it a male name.
Casual doesnt mean "out of the blue", it means reflexive or without effort.
Sure, I know what "casual" means and that out of the meanings, a more apt one I should've chosen would've been "incidental". That doesn't change my overall point that they're putting the entire onus of the gendering on the author as though it isn't the same as someone calling Alexa "she".
Replace this entire scenario with someone calling Alexa "she": the accusation of "casual gendering" would obviously be ridiculous, because Alexa has a popular female given name.