Ran across this video - https://youtu.be/f60pAYKPXHs
A rating system for swords. Neat.

Then another thought collided with it.
Professor Lenat and EURISKO

Suppose you loaded thousands of swords into a database, then tagged
which ones were used in documented fights against others, and the rate
of win/loss.
Then ran some deep learning/genetic change algorithms against that
until you had a design that reliably won against everything else.

Then, since it was roughly the size of a cutlass, just called it that,
rather than some long UUID that the program came up with.