lol you don't get it. If it's published it means it's not very useful

It was not always like this. Google was very secretive in the early days. We did not start to see things until the GFS, BigTable and Borg (or Chubby) papers in 2006 timeframe.

Meta is also being pretty open with their stuff. And recently most of the Chinese competition.

It's like driving behind a truck or van, you can't see past the (tinted) car in front.

The solution would be to overtake people with tinted windows. Unfortunately, the type of people with tinted windows are exactly the type you shouldn't overtake.

You didn't notice as soon as energy was needed for AI, all the tech companies gave up on green power and reducing emissions?

There's books written about the Bay Area and the factors that make (or made) it uniquely suited for developing new technologies. There's even college courses about it. Some of it's surely provincial fluff, but it's undeniable that California has been an essential incubator for a whole series of world-changing, fortune-making technologies.

I wish Google would use their learnings from Waymo/Streetview in Maps navigation. When I drive through a complicated intersection for the first time it's a bit of guesswork what's the right thing to do. Here in France at least since space is at a premium there are a lot of weird intersections that are hard to navigate.

I would rather not live my life with the sole purpose of people pleasing managers