[nevi-me]

The keynote was the most boring for me. I paused it to go to the bathroom, and even forgot that I was watching it.

I think they've lost track of the meaning of IO and its keynotes for users. They should rather have a separate Gemini event like they had a separate Android one last week.

They're collectively losing track of their product verticals because they're too focused on shoving AI down everything. Google Home is a cluster-f, basic things keep failing, and every other announcement from the Google Home VP is about Gemini. It took them years to reduce the frequency at which devices go offline.

Even their sessions seem underwhelming. It's a mixture of "what's new in X" and "AI" this and that.

[shaftway]

This is the result of systemic problems at Google:

- Launching is rewarded, keeping the lights on is not

- The hot new teams get far more resources than tried and true ones

You could sum this up in three words as "new is better".

This is why Google Home is getting worse. It worked well enough, but nobody gets promoted for keeping it like that. People get promoted for launching something new on that platform and cherry-picking statistics to show that they had "impact".

This is why everything at the keynote was AI. AI is the new hot dumpster fire that every resource is being poured into. And including AI in every product gives so many people the opportunity to launch new stuff, and demonstrate "impact".

And while I/O is for developers, you'd be foolish if you thought that Wall St. wasn't paying attention. Stock was down $10 for the day before I/O started, but during that keynote it gained $5. It didn't hold it, but clearly the keynote affected the stock price. Sundar knows this.

[milleramp]

People who were playing the drinking game to this are going to be feeling it tomorrow.

[Glohrischi]

They tell you that they increase invest from 10-30billion to 160 billion which will all go into compute and research.

This alone is such a crazy time to experience the amount of compute our society is adding globally.

Geminis quality increased again + long running agents. This will hurt so many people who do 'stuff on a computer'.

If this hits production, i probably would prefer to fire 1-2 collegues and get their salary in tokens. And its only a question of time until someone has the same thoughts about me.

Nothing of all of that is underwhelming.

How can we have such extrem opposit viewpoints to this?

[ezst]

When the field is so crowded with astroturf and myopic takes that you can no longer tell what's sarcasm and not.

[Glohrischi]

You always need to read through the marketing garbage.

Nonethless, in comparision to a lot of other companies, Google has Deepmind and the money to just do all of it without spending money which doesn't exist.