This week in the Wild West Roundup:
This week in the Wild West Roundup: A real Google Maps place page with tons of prompt injection in the comments. 'Comment and Control': Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot Agents Vulnerable to Prompt ...
Topic: google maps
6 chunks · 5 episodes
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- google maps appears in 6 chunks across 5 episodes, from 2023-11-27 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 11/27/23 (2023-11-27), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Google, duct tape, and early adopter, while by chunk count it sits between dynamic equilibrium and infinite game; its yearly rank moved from #37 in 2023 to #156 in 2026.
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The person who happens to be the product manager of the most explosive new product category will think they're a genius.
...ity the demand for the product is so great it's hard to have messed it up. When Google Maps launched its massive UI revamp more than a decade ago, the main user success metrics barely budged. People used Google Maps to accomplish tasks that ...
The adoption of a new product has two distinct curves:
...lity have the second curve but not the first. Some new products have both, like Google Maps did right when it was first launched. It's easy to confuse the bump of the gee-whiz for the hill of quality.
Why do people contribute to Wikipedia?
...ia? A similar dynamic: a few years ago I worked adjacent to User Street View on Google Maps. Users could upload panoramas they took, and in limited circumstances they'd show up in Google Maps. There was one example where a particularly motiv...
It's easy to trick yourself when optimizing for metrics.
...elf when optimizing for metrics. A real world example, a second hand story from Google Maps. When viewing a place page, there's a button to get directions, with a big obvious icon. The text beneath the icon used to be how long it would take ...
I was talking with Max Kirby about the idea of seeing AI as a new type of fiber woven through the quilt of the tecnium.
...e technology. When Max picked him up from the airport, Max navigated home using Google Maps on his phone. His friend looked at the phone and asked, "Is this AI?" Perhaps the answer isn't as straightforward as we think.