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>>meetpa+(OP)
Google/Alphabet is a giant hulking machine that’s been frankly running at idle. All that resume driven development and performance review promo cycles and retention of top talent mainly to work on ad tech means it’s packed to the rafters with latent capability. Holding on to so much talent in the face of basically having nothing to do is a testament to the company’s leadership - even if said leadership didn’t manage to make Google push humanity forward over the last decade or so.

Now there’s a big nugget to chew (LLMs) you’re seeing that latent capability come to life. This awakening feels more bottom-up driven than top down. Google’s a war machine chugging along nicely in peacetime, but now its war again!

Hats off to the engineers working on the tech. Excited to try it out!

>>cadams+fT
> retention of top talent mainly to work on ad tech

No the top talent worked on exciting things like Fuchsia. Ad tech is boring stuff written by people who aren't enough of a snob to refuse working on ad tech.