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by sgt 158 days ago
> I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

I am sure that whatever work was put into actually trying to implement that, was crucial in order to instruct Claude what to do. System design doesn't come by itself.

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We later found out they fed it the actual work done. Multiple versions of it. This is why this "we built X in an hour" BS needs to stop.
yeah they later admitted it was wildly over-exaggerated
they were not joking but... joking? when big tech is all rolled into a giant ball, wrapped with money and duct tape, it's hard to get these jokes.
Likely not.

I am also building some agents. It is almost hands off at this point.