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Who are you referring to here? If you follow the link, you will see that the Google engineer did not say that.

I am quoting the person that I responded to. Which linked to this: https://xcancel.com/rakyll/status/2007659740126761033#m

> I’m not joking and this isn’t funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Cloud Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

So I see one error. GP said “couldn’t do”. The engineer really said “matched”.

The key words in the quote are "not everyone is aligned". It's not about execution ability.

The key words are “one hour”. So what if there is some mealy-mouthed preamble?

At big tech companies "were still finding alignment" is code for leadership not being able to make decisions and unblock execution.

Dearest leadership not unblocking execution. What's that got to do with what we’re complaining about? Did Claude cure cancer (this is hyperbole) in one hour or not?

The point of the story to me was, with a clear idea of what they want, the person got a year's worth of Big Tech done in a few hours with Claude. Could have been a couple days with a tight team, either way, the problem wasn't the coding ability or typing speed.

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