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Voice assistant hasn't improved in literally years. Dead product walking.

• toyg 3y ago
  Oh no, it "improved" several times - often getting worse. Which is why I was almost happy, reading the headline - sorry for the involved devs (who were likely crying in their 6-figure salary anyway) , but the best thing that could happen to Google Home/Assistant is to just stop messing with it.
  • esafak 3y ago
    No, just revert commit to where it was after it came out. Don't freeze it in its broken state.
  • Jensson 3y ago
    I've noticed many things breaking like that. Features that aren't a major factor in a company's revenue seems to just get worse and worse the more people work on them. For example has happened to every voice chat program I've tested, skype, steam, battle net etc.
  • pnut 3y ago
    Devs are a general purpose resource that translate business requirements into software, you are describing a product management failure. Unless Google forces devs to also be product managers? I can't believe that's true.
    • SkyPuncher 3y ago
      If your job relies on creating value for a customer (hint most do), then it’s also your job to make sure you’re creating that value for customers. Throw it over the fence almost always leads to outcomes like this.
• ryandvm 3y ago
  Yeah, this is one of those products that Google has that somehow miraculously keeps getting worse. It's failings are particularly noticeable now that I can spend all day having rich conversations with ChatGPT, but Google assistant is telling me "I don't have any information on that" when I ask it the simplest of questions.