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> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away Competent is a stretch. Google's AI offering seems to be, once again, PM led–lots
by JumpCrisscross 3mo ago
> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away
Competent is a stretch. Google's AI offering seems to be, once again, PM led–lots of constantly-changing brands being merged and deprecated with zero customer support or service.
They'll almost certainly be one of the survivors. Their technical competece is unmatched. But that doesn't mean they have a great product in the way both OpenAI and Anthropic do. (Outside their datacentres, which are a legitimate feat.)
- pants2 3mo agoAfter all this time it's still a pain point just to pay them for a Gemini API key.
- mountainriver 3mo agoSo crazy, at one point they had 3 different systems for interacting with Gemini, all with different auth. For a company that prides themselves on the smartest engineers, they really struggle with the basics
- ben_w 3mo agoMm, however the more I experience of the world, the more I find this matches the description up-thread: > Google acting like a normal but competent company Is it messed up and weird? Yup. Still normal though. Worse, this is matching the baseline of competence I find in so many other places.
- xnx 3mo agoA lot of this is having to incorporate with existing billing systems for their customers. OpenAI and Anthropic have it easier by having no previous billing setup to be compatible with.
- titzer 3mo agoGoogle has never been good at supporting developers, and it absolutely loathes end users. Support for everything that is not their ad ecosystem is miserable. There's never any long term plan, everything gets deprecated and bitrots.
- slashdave 3mo agoDon't forget: resources