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Comment by alpb | Hacker News Reader

Truly puzzling why Google is doing these things that do not scale. Their DNA historically has been doing things for billions of users, not 10 companies that might ever pay for this. Google is a technology company through and through, they have a great engineering talent, and they can keep shifting paradigm in many areas, especially in cloud. Yet, the short-term profit motive of the rot economy is taking another tech giant hostage.

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Kurian = enterprise IT = high-margin low-scale customized solutions. In theory the long tail of the market is just as lucrative as the big head.

depends if you define long tail as customer count vs contract size

That's what happens when you take your most productive/creative minds, thrown them in the trash, and replace them with greedy MBA drones.

Drones, indeed. Now your government's murderbots can be powered by Google Gemini.

One of the more interesting things was the MBAs don't run engineering, it was fascinating seeing how quickly the tide can go out on management quality, especially when you're growing 20% every year -- took maybe 4 years to form a new extremely agreeable layer over significantly worse quality than the one 2 layers above it. Kiss up, kick down.

I have no idea what you’re talking about in practice. It felt like MBAs or less competent perspectives abounded when I was in cloud.

You realise that the idea that developers who work at google are more intelligent than average is the product of the work of marketing graduates who work at google?

They invested in a dead end AI technology. They, like all the other players in the space, are trying madly to recoup their original investments. It turns out "chat bot" is not a viable product on any level whatsoever.

This seems pretty adjacent to their existing cloud business not requiring major new investments and is likely a requirement to do bigger deals with customers.

I have no experience in this space, but I suspect supplying the US Air Force with this equipment may have a number of indirect benefits.

Google Cloud has an totally different customer base, strategy and internal culture from the rest of Google.

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