> That means, first and foremost, excising the company of employees attracted to Google’s power and its potential to help them execute their political program,

> That means, first and foremost, excising the company of employees attracted to Google’s power and its potential to help them execute their political program, and return decision-making to those who actually want to make a good product. I was thinking this same thing before I got to this passage in the article. The most bizarre thing about the Gemini fiasco is that the base models, the OSS models of Gemma-2B and Gemma-7B, are damned impressive. Gemma-2B alone surpasses GPT-3.5-Turbo IME. What’s happening here is that an army of bullshit jobs, really departments of bullshit jobs, are leading to a negative impact on product. Silicon Valley has become too soft as of late, the layoffs need to become more aggressive to remove these bullshit jobs from mucking up the product.