Wow the sceptics really came out in force for this one.

I’m currently using Gemini to research components for a remote controlled plane. I have the frame of the plane and now need to buy correctly specced servo motors, an engine, battery, etc etc. It has saved me so much time and educated me tremendously on how the different components interact and the options available.

If I could just press “buy” from within Gemini and pay via Google Pay (or better still, Apple Pay) I’d do it in a heartbeat.

If ChatGPT can do this today, I need to try it.

The entire point of shoehorning AI into everything is to make people stop thinking for themselves and allowing a corporation to do it for them.

“””If I could just press “buy” from within Gemini and pay via Google Pay (or better still, Apple Pay) I’d do it in a heartbeat”””

Yeah, until that becomes enshittified and you don’t notice because you no longer do research on components.

>...is to make people stop thinking for themselves and allowing a corporation to do it for them.

Insert that "always has been" meme.

Microsoft was brought to court in the 90's for shoehorning in Internet Explorer.

so what, i want to build a little remote controlled plane that works

I would assume the average purchase in Walmart is significantly more low-tech than this though

It's not even just that- with component selection you have a handful of datasheets that give you (ideally) fairly truthful information about the device. You can rather deterministically look at these and compare them.

Regular consumer products? Good fucking luck. Anywhere an LLM pulls from is probably going to be mostly SEO'd listicles.

Solid move by Altman - good signal they’re serious about capturing the Claude Code market from Anthropic.

What I don’t understand is why hasn’t anyone bought Jetbrains yet.

Atlassian? AWS? Google?

Because Jetbrain strategy wasn't to burn money with free tools to eventually exit with the jackpot. They have been profitable for over a decade, simply asking users to pay a fair price for great product.

Judging by all their mistakes in the last years, Russian war and AI, it’s only a matter of time until someone buys them out.

With the way they're going, I'm less and less convinced there will be much left to buy, unless it's for pennies.

I've only been a JetBrains user for five years but it's felt like it's only getting worse the whole time.

To be fair, everything is getting worse the whole time.

Atlassian? Bitbucket as a platform for agentic development.. shudder

Never did. I remember someone replied to my comment here that Google isn’t paying a penny to JetBrains. They’re quite happy with the relationship primarily because they don’t have to pay anything. If anything, JetBrains is the one who needs Google more than the other way around.

Meanwhile the whole world on VSCode getting ads for Azure…

Fascinating, is miniaturisation and “democratisation” of offensive capabilities via 3d printing and consumer tech going to impact defensive capabilities as well?

Are we going to see foot troops carry one of these strapped to their backpacks and launched autonomously to counteract incoming drones?

Which is basically a way to do React without it being React

Looking forward to the release!

One of the more interesting takes I heard from a colleague, who’s in the marketing department, is that he uses the corporate approved LLM (Gemini) for “pretend work” or very basic tasks. At the same time he uses Claude on his personal account to seriously augment his job.

His rationale is he won’t let the company log his prompts and responses so they can’t build an agentic replacement for him. Corporate rules about shadow it be damned.

Only the paranoid survive I guess

It's not his company that will train using his prompts. It's the personal account, unless it is fully paid and he's opted out of training on his prompts.

>opted out of training on his prompts

I’d argue this can’t be trusted either considering the AI labs already established they’re willing to break laws (copyright) if the ultimate legal consequence is just a small fine or settlement.

Is OpenAI giving employees RSUs? What good are those under these astronomical valuations?

Presumably it’s all relative. Apple gives me RSUs with a much higher valuation (although at least it’s on the public market already).

they have PPUs

No it's RSU now. But idk if anyone would want to join OpenAI at these levels. Are they really a $1T business?

At least Anthropic has some runway in terms of valuation and isn't bleeding all over some free tier.

I think it begs the question:

Is Gemini meant to be be a revenue making product or strictly a cost centre to defend against Search and Ads erosion by OpenAI?

Why does the Gemini web app not support MCP Servers?

Incredibly sad to lear that Peter Thiel owns so much land in one of the earth’s most beautiful places.

If I was a kiwi I would be livid at the government allowing this purchase to go through.

Async Agent = a LLM powered application using a well understood thinking / planning loop and reasonably clear success criteria to process a prompt that takes longer than a tacitly agreed upon amount of time so that the user needs to be notified of the outcome instead of waiting for it.