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• travisgriggs 4y ago
  A never ending boatload of enabling cash from the golden goose of adtech monopoly certainly contributes to this as well?
  • YZF 4y ago
    Definitely. Basically the business results (ad revenue) is more or less decoupled, in the short and medium terms, from what I would guess 90% of engineers in Google do. So calculate digits of Pi, write books and blog posts, write chat apps, reinvent any wheel possible, rewrite code all the time. A lot of Google's software is actually becoming worse, search, chat, navigation/maps as the 10% that are doing valuable work are fighting entropy and the other 90%. Pure speculation (other than the part about their software becoming worse) so would be interested in the insider's take here. That said it's a pattern I've seen in other places. It's crazy that with so many people of this caliber they're basically spinning their wheels in many areas. Some progress in a few areas, like cloud.