It’s got the same disease as the rest of Google? What gained monumental trust by being a useful and accessible library of high-quality information is now a place to shove higher oCPM because fuck everyone?
I really admire Google over time, it’s a special place that still has engineers you can’t find many places.
But once they let climber TPMs write their own performance review by just ransacking the dwell? An even worse crop (Altman, Amodei) was inevitable.
Can you give me three recent instances where you were trying to accomplish something with Google Maps, and you weren't able to because it's gone to shit?
Without concrete examples your comment is just vibes.
You don't seem to be arguing that Google is a bad company actually. You're arguing that it was once a good/altruistic company, and now it's more ordinary. This strikes me as an entitled attitude. A company behaves in a good/altruistic way, people get used to it, they don't show appreciation, but they do start cursing if the altruism diminishes even a little. "No good deed goes unpunished"
I really admire Google over time, it’s a special place that still has engineers you can’t find many places.
But once they let climber TPMs write their own performance review by just ransacking the dwell? An even worse crop (Altman, Amodei) was inevitable.