Andy Halliday

It's just they're trying to get the momentum back from Gemini.

And that's one of the things that's going to happen here is probably going to be less expensive and is probably more efficient.

And it makes it possible for them not to really dig their hole deeper or a lot deeper.

But still, nonetheless, we really should be seeing

inference costs rising in alignment with the useful exploitation of that inference.

I'm not saying we want that.

Let's say we want that.

That's what we should be.

I have one more news item before we shift over to Claude interviewer, which is really interesting.

And that is that

Repl.it, which is one of the main vibe coding platforms out there, has just announced a partnership in concert with Google Cloud.

Now, Google had made an investment.

Google's investment arm had made an investment in Repl.it early on.

But this isn't them trying to prop it up.

Replit is a major player out there and in use widely.

Replit as a platform was already in use widely before it became a vibe coding platform because of its ability to deploy.

Replit was a deployment platform before it became an AI with deployment platform.

And now they're partnering with Google Cloud so that Google Cloud and all of their services

including Firebase and other elements that are important to an application development.

So those will all be more accessible, more readily accessible to teams in enterprise that are using Replit to do vibe coding.