Hear hear. I'm a founder of a GenAI startup, left Google to do it. And yet, cannot believe how much debasement has occurred, and trust has been lost, by every. single. product. and. company. thinking it has to have an AI story, and it has to be the story.

c.f. Google IO keynote this year. I couldn't tell you a single thing Google is launching this year, beyond limited, rushed features where Gemini chat is in a side pane.

And that's not on me: it's because Google literally didn't talk about a single other thing.

And as usual, Google is out of touch and doesn't get the joke, c.f. at the end, Sundar presenting their own count of how many times they said AI.

I sorely miss tech industry of the 00s, I simply cannot imagine ex. 2000 Apple/Steve Jobs falling for this. There's this weird vapid MBA brain drain in charge everywhere. But hey, stonk goes up.