And this is exactly why they need to be broken up. If that offering was their core service, you can bet it would be the priority of the middle managers.
I wish Google weren't like this, but I don't agree it should be illegal.
Readit Newsendtime commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
endtime commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Does google know this startegy just makes people less likely to sign up for their new shiny services, as the "killed by google" meme spreads more and more
I worked at Google for ten years (as an IC). Here's my personal perspective.
Yes, of course, the individual employees know. But the decision making for these kinds of things is usually a full-time middle manager, who isn't deciding on behalf of Google as a whole, but on behalf of their organization within Google (could be 50 people, could be 2000). It's not just _not_ that manager's job to make the globally optimal decision for Google, it's actually likely often in direct conflict with their job, which is basically "set the priorities of your org such that they launch things that make your boss look good to his boss". Spending headcount on maintaining niche stuff is usually not that (and takes resources away from whatever is).
endtime commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601
endtime commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601
> Basically he underestimated the value of his experiences.
How can anyone here confirm that's true, though?
This reads to me like just another AI story where the user already is lost in the sycophant psychosis and actually believes they are getting relevant feedback out of it.
For all I know, the AI was just overly confirming as usual.
He actually got the job he didn't think he could get.
I follow this methodology but I just ... use git? The hard part of making multiple small PRs is usually wrangling someone to actually review them, or following whatever process management has decided is necessary.
The hard part I always found without jj (and Fig before it, when I was at Google) was managing a DAG of small changes.
What's your git workflow for a change that depends on two other in flight changes? (More generally, of course, this can occur in an arbitrary part of one's change graph - which is usually not too deep, but at least in my experience, occasionally is.)
Having good tooling for this unlocked workflows I didn't know I was missing, and switching back to git when leaving Google felt like losing a limb.
endtime commented on Meta Poaches Two More Apple AI Executives macrumors.com/2025/07/17/... · Posted by u/alwillis
Poaching is a strange verb to use. It implies that Apple has some intrinsic right to their labor and that meta has done something unethical by making them a better offer.
That's simply not how employment works.
It's a standard term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_poaching
endtime commented on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? derekthompson.org/p/what-... · Posted by u/mmcclure
Having children younger. This builds villages and generates the community flywheel. The problem now is that it's close to impossible for the vast majority of younger people to buy a home with a single income. So the choice becomes dual income and farm out the raising of your children (requires even more money and negates the benefits of enjoying your children which is part of the reason to have them in the first place), or delay having children until you are financially secure. Couple this with the constant inundation of social media and the myriad experiences available with the click of a button and people are simply taking the short term gratification route.
Society needs to change and we need to incentivize it.
In terms of incentives, Hungary has attempted this with tax policy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_policy_in_Hungary
Seems to be working!
endtime commented on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" · Posted by u/bookofjoe
That was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the posts for at least a year or more, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. It's also different from web3/etc. as those were at most 10% of the posts and most of us can see it's just hype.
I'm not fighting for a split/fork, just stating the fact that it's nothing compared to Erlang.
IIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.
Weird you mention a brown person, and not the various white nationalist ZOG types who actually go and shoot up synagogues. Also how did you even know he was Pakistani or a student?
I'm talking about my actual experience, and I know he was Pakistani because we had mutual friends. He dated one of them. I know exactly who he was. What a bizarre comment.
I didn't have any similar experience with any white international students.