The infrastructure is there. The institutional knowledge and engineering talent is there. Google can do this if they return to their core mission statement: "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." This is in contrast to their current objective, which from the outside seems to be "To maximize next quarter's ad revenue."

I would love to see a return of the old Google. No amount of engineering skill will make up for clueless management.

I was impressed. I'm still doing a good portion of the human-does-writing bits, but things I'd wanted to include, but have forgotten along the way -- or which are buried in notes I didn't give to Gemini, were brought to my attention again.

Even before posting this comment, and just to make sure I have not been hallucinating lately, just shot a simple programming prompt into Claude, ChatGPT4 and Gemini Advanced. While the first two provided a template that worked even on first attempt, after 5 prompts Gemini Advanced can't even get the expected indent of a Python function block correct...