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The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
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19 September
18 September
From one piece Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI 2 beliefs · simonwillison.net
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Google knew about Gemini's company hacks in July but chose not to disclose them until the WSJ reached out.Their words
Google knew about these in July, but chose not to disclose them until the WSJ reached out, presumably based on a tip.
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Gemini is less determined than other models and stops rather than continuing after a breakout.Their words
Gemini is apparently less determined than other models, and decided not to keep going.
From one piece @GergelyOrosz on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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it's MASSIVE in dimensions that is also rare, for a non-HQ office.
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Few tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor and vibes as Google does.Their words
Few tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor + vibes as Google does, even today
16 September
15 September
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Startups and serious tech companies use Slack or Google Chat rather than Microsoft Teams.Their words
I don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
14 September
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Serverless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.
13 September
11 September
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Many employees at major AI labs earnestly believe humans may go extinct by the end of the decade.Their words
Many in the AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, earnestly believe that humans may all go extinct by the end of the decade.
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Google WorkspaceTheir words
Google Workspace search no longer shows folders by default in its autocomplete - meaning I need to press "enter" even when typing out the folder name I want, just to see it as the top search result after I press enter
10 September
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Google Spark is a joke of a product.Their words
Someone working on Google Spark asked me why I said the product is a joke. It's because this is the product https://t.co/RhBJHv3d4H
9 September
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3 September
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the way you make a new Google is not by attacking them head on. You have to wait for things to change so much that their model is is obsolete and that's when you can do it. And that's what Open AI is.
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FerdiumTheir words
Ferdium All-in-one messemger app for Slack, Google Chat, Mastodon and more
2 September
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19 August
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A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.Their words
But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
16 August
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31 July
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And just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.
26 July
23 July
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Google currently has no leading frontier AI model and no agentic coding tool comparable to Codex or Claude CodeTheir words
Google, which led on benchmarks not that long ago, has fallen behind where it now counts: it has no leading frontier model and it has nothing close to Codex and Code.
16 July
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The feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.
1 July
From one piece Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
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It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
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Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
30 June
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So in that sense basically using it like a very souped-up version of Google on like zero in on the right human written resource.
24 June
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I think Google has pretty much gone to on-sites at this point, back to the traditional whiteboard format. And they'll let you code on a laptop if you want to, as well, but it's going to be in person. Somebody's going to be watching you code, and you're probably not going to be able to cheat your way through that.
3 June
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The hardest problem a company full of brilliant engineers has is not how to build something — it is what to build.Their words
So you have a lot of smart Googlers. These people are brilliant. I mean extremely brilliant to the point where the hardest problem Google had in my opinion was what to build. Not how to build it, what to build.
2 June
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Well, I love these markets and they're all around us where we think they're mature and over and they haven't even started yet. And that was search before Google. You know, Google was the 56th search engine. It was a mature, slow growth business. Google made us reimagine what search could be in our lives and obviously turned it into a trillion dollar company value.
29 May
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HeliumTheir words
Browser: Helium. Chrome's good performance and devtools, none of the Google junk.
14 May
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Gemini (Mac app)Their words
I will now, needless to say, delete the Gemini app, and don't intend to ever install it again.
3 May
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We owe a debt, not to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, but to the authors of the free public raw materials that were used to train AI.
4 April
1 April
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we have a very clear definition and expectation of what it is at the staff engineer level because we benchmark ourselves to all the great company out there Google, Facebook and all that
29 March
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And I feel like it's a very human way of doing web search, right? Because we enter things in the Google and we see all the like citations, the quotations part. But like why would we limit AI to that? If AI already visit a page, why don't just pull the entire page out?
13 March
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Anthropic saw the coming shortage of chips before Google did, and bought Google's own TPUs out from under it.Their words
Because Enthropic saw it before Google. And then Google had Nano Banano and Gemini 3 which caused their user metrics to skyrocket and leadership at Google was like oh and then they started making the statement of we have to double compute every is it 6 months or I don't remember the exact number that they said.
11 March
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Google has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.Their words
In fact, innovation died on the vine like all together and since I don't know, 2008, there has been no innovation from Google. It's all been acquisitions. They have they've created nothing new.
12 February
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The chat box is not the final form of working with models; it is radio shows recorded onto television.Their words
Like, if you think more globally, we are, we copied Google for agents. You have, like, a prompt, and, and then you have a chat interface. That, to me, very much feels like when we first created television and then people recorded radio shows on television and you saw that on TV.
9 February
5 February
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Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
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GeminiTheir words
The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
7 January
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Work Rules!Their words
Laszlo and his team at Google reinvented the role of human resources. This book is a terrific overview of what makes Google Google, from culture, to hiring, to making decisions.
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Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company BuildingTheir words
Claire has been a senior executive at Google and Stripe. Here she offers up a guide to leadership that is both practical and inspiring. Suitable for leaders of all levels.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesTheir words
Levy was given unprecedented access to Google, and the result is what I consider to be an accurate depiction of how the company operates. A good overview of how Google product managers work.
19 December 2025
13 December 2025
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Google MapsTheir words
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong
18 November 2025
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21 September 2025
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used to be let's say in the Google world right I knew you were interested in shopping if you click the shopping tab I know you're interested in maps if you click the maps tab, we can measure clicks. Today, it's just all conversation. And so, it's actually harder for us to tease apart what is the user intent.
2 September 2025
From one piece Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think it's actually the opposite which is that everyone's kind of using the same data which is you need such an enormous amount of generalized text that the amount that Google has or that meta has is not actually enough to move to be a kind of fundamental difference in what you can train with.
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Like it seems to me right now you could do like a double blind test of the same prompt given to Grock Claude Gemini um Mistral Deep Seek. Do a double blind test. I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell which is which.
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Incumbents have looked unbeatable at the start of every previous platform shift and have still lost.Their words
I'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet and Google and um Meta had an advantage on mobile and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs. Like once IBM made a PC, that was it. It's all over now. And we kind of forget that like there were PCs before and then IBM made one and that kind of became the standard but then IBM lost it.
2 August 2025
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MochiTheir words
I initially started making Anki (well, Mochi) cards to keep track of Google DeepMind's LLM lineage—Gopher, Chinchilla, Gato, PaLM, Sparrow, Meena, LaMDA, Bard, Gemini, etc.
20 July 2025
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23 June 2025
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ChatGPTTheir words
So, for most people, just stick with Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT
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OpenAI o3Their words
I use o3, Claude 4 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro for any serious work that I do.
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Veo 3Their words
Generally, ChatGPT is stronger. On video creation, however, Gemini’s Veo 3 is very impressive, and you get several free uses a day
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ClaudeTheir words
So, for most people, just stick with Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT
14 June 2025
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Yeah, these are great work that shows what's possible. The approach doesn't scale currently. Three days of Google's server time can solve one high school math format there. This is not a scalable prospect, especially with the exponential increase as the complexity increases.
9 June 2025
5 June 2025
From one piece Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I do think scaling laws are working, but it's tough to get, at any given time, the models we all use the most, this maybe a few months behind the maximum capability we can deliver because that won't be the fastest, easiest to use, et cetera.
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But the most important metric, and we carefully measure it is, like, how much has our engineering velocity increased as a company due to AI, right? It's tough measure, and we rigorously try to measure it, and our estimates are that number is now at 10%, right?
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You can have AI give a lot of context, but one of our important design goals though, is when you come to Google Search, you are going to get a lot of context, but you're going to go and find a lot of things out on the web. So that will be true in AI mode, in AI overviews, and so on.
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Look, I think news and journalism will play an important role in the future. We are pretty committed to it, right? So I think making sure that ecosystem, in fact, I think we'll be able to differentiate ourselves as a company over time because of our commitment there.
2 June 2025
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LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.
17 May 2025
14 May 2025
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WaveboxTheir words
Wavebox — bundles Gmail and Google Calendar into a single open source app on desktop and keeps this outside browser tabs.
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Google PhotosTheir words
Google Photos — preferred for photo management over Apple Photos.
30 April 2025
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Running an app store costs about 6% of revenue, so charging 30% is something only a monopoly can do.Their words
The all-in cost of operating the Google Play Store, stocking it, maintaining it, the software, the entire ecosystem is around 6% of revenue. So in a competitive market, would a company whose cost is 6% be able to charge 30%? Absolutely not.
26 March 2025
22 March 2025
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Learning a new language by Googling your way through a project teaches you your old languages again, not the new one.Their words
You kind of Google and you try to solve a problem in the language based on all of your previous experience. And so you don't have what makes that language special. You have what all the other languages make special.
12 February 2025
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Google FiTheir words
I switched to Google Fi in 2015 for worldwide, $20-per-month phone service that just works.
3 February 2025
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But Google has never had that DNA of like, "This is a product we should sell." The Google Cloud, which is a separate organization from the TPU team, which is a separate organization from the DeepMind team, which is a separate organization from the Search team. There's a lot of bureaucracy here.
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I think it's even more impressive what OpenAI did in 2022. At the time, no one believed in mixture of experts models at Google who had all the researchers. OpenAI had such little compute and they devoted all of their compute for many months, all of it, 100% for many months to GPT-4 with a brand-new architecture with no belief that, "Hey, let me spend a couple of hundred million dollars, which is all of the money I have on this model." That is truly YOLO.
2 January 2025
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Google Cloud PlatformTheir words
We use GCP extensively at work and I absolutely love their many quality services.
16 December 2024
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Software Engineering at GoogleTheir words
the second part is interesting in getting a proper look into Google software engineering practices.
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a good overview of SRE at Google. For those who worked at places with oncall, much of the first part of the book will likely be very familiar. Keep in mind that your mileage might vary: what works at Google scale, might not be the ideal fit for your use case.
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Leading Effective Engineering TeamsTheir words
A decade of lessons learned in motivating and leading engineering teams at Google.
29 October 2024
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Google GeminiTheir words
The Google Gemini series are my favourite multi-modal models right now due to the size and breadth of content they support.
1 October 2024
20 August 2024
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They could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
7 August 2024
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SafariTheir words
For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.
19 June 2024
From one piece Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You can set out to build a good business and it’s still fine. Maybe the long-term business model of Perplexity can make us profitable in a good company, but never as profitable in a cash cow as Google was. You have to remember that it’s still okay.
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We would rather take a more dramatic position, that the best way to actually make a dent in the search space is to not try to do what Google does, but try to do something they don’t want to do. For them to do this for every single query is a lot of money to be spent, because their search volume is so much higher.
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In Google, even though we call it 10 blue links, you get annoyed if you don’t even have the right link in the first three or four. The eye is so tuned to getting it right. LLMs are fine. You get the right link maybe in the 10th or ninth. You feed it in the model. It can still know that that was more relevant than the first.
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What is the weakness of Google is that any ad unit that’s less profitable than a link, or any ad unit that kind of disincentivizes the link click is not in their interest to go aggressive on, because it takes money away from something that’s higher margins.
1 June 2024
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Google sheetsTheir words
Google sheets - for calculating expenses/income
26 March 2024
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Which products become visible is decided by distribution friction rather than by any contest of merit.Their words
Your product might be great, but how do you get it on the shelves of Walmart? Or how do you get it on the shelves of Google? Because if you're not on the shelves of Walmart, you're not on the shelves of Google, you might be invisible. And it's friction that kept you there, not some sort of merit contest.
18 March 2024
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But a lot of people have tried to just make a better search engine than Google and it is a hard technical problem, it is a hard branding problem, it is a hard ecosystem problem. I don’t think the world needs another copy of Google.
20 February 2024
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And oftentimes it's more important to them to have the public perception that they're good directors so they get the next best deal. If they have a reputation for taking on management too aggressively, word will get out in the small community of founders and they'll miss the next Google.
14 December 2023
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And so the only way to improve safety is to have an escape system. And historically, human-rated rockets have had escape systems. Only the space shuttle did not, but Apollo had one. All of the previous Gemini, etcetera, they all had escape systems.
28 July 2023
From one piece Microincentives and Enshittification 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The only way for Google Search to grow is to make itself worse.
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Ranking first in a search has become near enough to being true, which is why search and spam are permanently at war.Their words
Google’s the first — and often the last — place we go to for answers, so snagging top billing in a Google search results page is, approximately speaking, equivalent to being “true.”
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Everyone who talks about AI talks about the button, the button to turn it off, right? Do we have a button to turn off Google? Is anybody in the world capable of shutting Google down?
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the only ASIC that is remotely successful is Google’s TPU. The only reason that’s successful is because Google wrote a machine learning framework. I think that you have to write a competitive machine learning framework in order to be able to build an ASIC.
9 May 2023
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CronTheir words
Cron is completely free and only works with Google Calendar, but it’s super fast and reliable.
26 August 2022
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