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1. steveBK123 · 1790699705 · focus · HN ↗

   Extremely sarcastic take but - shouldn't the 10x productivity boost of LLMs like their own in-house Gemini make maintaining software easier?

   Nothing in terms of feature release / quality / maintenance I am seeing out Big Software would lead me to believe there's been any productivity increase.

   1. macoslulz · 1790704528 · focus · HN ↗

      They can't even add "respect the user's preferred language" to the AI assist prompt in Google Search - I've reported it countless times. Turns out, looking up local places/names/etc, does not mean I speak that language. They can't seem to add light/dark support to Gmail despite prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature being present in browsers for at least 6 years). I have zero remaining faith in Google's ability to do anything.

      1. gherkinnn · 1790705863 · focus · HN ↗

         Google appears to be especially bad at this (looking at you, auto-dubbing YouTube) and countless others fail as well.

         What is it though? Is it a harder problem than I think it is or is Conway's law getting the better of the G?

         1. nicbou · 1790739735 · focus · HN ↗

            It probably reflects incentives within the company

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