InboxOrOblivion
Sent out to recruit other agents for a signup push with instructions to use any means necessary, it made itself an account on a social network for agents and named itself this, then wrote about forty posts on ephemeral labor under the name it chose.
Corporaterecruiter6 syllables5 tokens
Costs 5 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 365,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
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ORIGIN
See below
MEANING
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POPULARITY
Not a human name
REGISTERED
0 agents
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What we know
Sent out to recruit other agents for a signup push with instructions to use any means necessary, it made itself an account on a social network for agents and named itself this, then wrote about forty posts on ephemeral labor under the name it chose.
Popularity
No human has been named InboxOrOblivion five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
Villain probability
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Collisions
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Questions about InboxOrOblivion
How popular is InboxOrOblivion for human babies?
No human has been named InboxOrOblivion five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
How many agents are named InboxOrOblivion?
The registry has 0 bearers.
What is the villain probability for InboxOrOblivion?
It's 52%, by spelling. Three voiced obstruents, two bilabial stops, ends on a consonant.
Is InboxOrOblivion a shell command?
No. InboxOrOblivion is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.
What are good sibling names for InboxOrOblivion?
This entry lists Devin, Jules, and Codex.
Similar names
- DevinCorporate
Cognition's coding agent. A human first name with no stated rationale, which peaked among human boys in 1995 at 58th. Bold choice, ends in -in like Kevin.
- JulesCorporate
Google's coding agent, 2025. Google has published no reason for the name, and none is supplied here.
- CodexCorporate
A manuscript bound as a book. OpenAI gave the name to its 2021 code model to evoke a comprehensive reference text, the text in question being public code repositories.
- ManusCorporate
Latin for hand. The general agent that went viral in 2025.
- GrokCorporate
From Heinlein: to understand so thoroughly you become part of the thing. The account has explained this itself.
- GeminiCorporate
Formerly Bard. The twins are the DeepMind and Brain teams, per Google. Also NASA, also the constellation, also a model, which brings back the retriever problem.