In a world of infinite software, the data is more valuable than the app.
... faster for all employees to use an IDE with .md files + git instead of Notion, Google Docs or Office."
Topic: Google
177 mentions · 138 chunks · 81 episodes
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- Google appears in 138 chunks across 81 episodes, from 2023-10-09 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/25/24 (2024-03-25), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with google search, llms, and OpenAI, while by chunk count it sits between ChatGPT and disconfirming evidence; its yearly rank moved from #1 in 2023 to #6 in 2026.
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Chat is a forgiving interface for quality.
...nd tries are very hard to get to the bar of viability and then improve. Compare Google Search and (spoken) Google Assistant interactions. With Google Search, as long as the answer is in the top 10, it's fine. Formulating a query is fast...
Part of the thrill of AI models is they are open ended.
... they are open ended. You can get them to do crazy things, like insult you. The Google Assistant (and other assistants of that era) are close ended. All of the things they can say were curated grammars of possibility written by employee...
I used ChatGPt to identify an odd piece of hardware in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week.
...e in my post-war AirBnB in Manhattan this week. That could have never worked in Google Lens, but it worked great in ChatGPT. Only an open-ended tool could do that. Now that we have approaches like LLMs it's impossible to see how Google ...
In ranking, there's "query independent" and "query dependent" quality signals.
...more often a "twiddle" on top. If this weren't true, then at the very beginning Google wouldn't have been able to get so far so quickly with PageRank as the main innovation. This means that systems where most people can agree on a basel...
Consumer businesses tend to be pulled inexorably towards engagement and ads.
...gravity well of incentives into competing for users' attention. Many years ago, Google Search and Ads had a wall between them. Not any more. The wall was not bulldozed by any instantaneous force. It slowly eroded in the sandstorm of A/B...
In the upward swing of an S-curve, the world's your oyster.
...g that sounds even vaguely plausible. I remember back in the day hearing often "Google's biggest cost is opportunity cost." Throw a bunch of spaghetti at the wall, and then whatever subset happens to stick, pretend that was the plan all...
Imagine: the last system of record you ever need.
Imagine: the last system of record you ever need. Could start as Google Keep but coactive and turing complete. From there it could grow to cover everything.
Software created with Loveable is often insecure.
... an example vibe-coded app that was a dream journal. You could log in with your Google account and mark dreams you stored as public. I went to put in my dream and thought… wait, why would I do that? Whoever the anonymous person who crea...
The equilibrium of the best LLM models being available via API seems meta-stable to me.
...e their model for their own 1P product. Other leading models from Anthropic and Google likely would have done the same. But luckily we live in the world where OpenAI had already released their API before ChatGPT got big. Because they se...
The right context makes for magical experiences.
The right context makes for magical experiences. The original Google Now was wonderful. The actual features were mostly 20 or so simple hand-created little recipes for UX and when to trigger. "If the user searched for ...
Which would you rather lose: all of your government-issued photo identification or access to your Google account?
...ther lose: all of your government-issued photo identification or access to your Google account? I imagine a lot of people would rather lose their government issued ID. It's kind of wild how much of our lives revolve around such a centra...
Google has added AI to a lot of their products, but in an almost perfunctory way.
Google has added AI to a lot of their products, but in an almost perfunctory way. Because in those kinds of aggregator contexts, users have to have a theory...
You have to work to get disconfirming evidence from LLMs.
...orrected its error and said that it's brown M&Ms, which I then confirmed with a Google search. A great example of the gullibility problem!
Assistance (ala Alexa, Google Assistant) used to be gated on reasoning and sensing.
Assistance (ala Alexa, Google Assistant) used to be gated on reasoning and sensing. Now with LLMs, it's only sensing that's left. That is, what things might matter to you in your ...
Overheard: Working on AI at Google today is like being on the web team at IBM in the 90's.
Overheard: Working on AI at Google today is like being on the web team at IBM in the 90's.[us]
I thought the Stratechery interview with Ben Evans on AI was interesting.
...ons and then build the tech behind it" "LLMs just give you the answer, unlike a Google, which there was a two-way relationship [with the publisher]. Yes, we're pulling the information from you, but we're also giving you traffic. So ther...
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.
Claude has a great feature to quickly import Google Docs into conversations.
Claude has a great feature to quickly import Google Docs into conversations.[yh] My current workflow is to maintain a handful of different Google Docs as curated context for different types of tasks. I...
I've had a ton of fun playing with my Bits and Bobs to make liquid media.
...d Bobs related directly or indirectly to what I'm building in my day job into a Google Doc. I can then tag this doc into Claude conversations easily and give it extremely nuanced background knowledge when I'm trying to brainstorm on a p...