David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

And it it didn't work and it cratered spectacularly and it hurt Google for a really long time. voice-verified

Um and the the bear case for a lot of this is Google repeating exactly that mistake. voice-verified

And instead voice-verified

Of saying we have a bunch of successful products, maybe this is a new one, they're saying we need to reinvent every single thing that we do around this other thing that now exists. voice-verified

And they might break it all again in the process. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

That's such a fun UX question. voice-verified

Like, should you be able to ask Google Maps about your email? voice-verified

Is such a fun, weird question. voice-verified

Uh there was a some announcement this week that you can now like order food directly through Google Maps. voice-verified

You can say, I, you know, I have this long drive. voice-verified

Order me some Chinese food to be picked up along the way. voice-verified

Um boy can I not wait to test that out in a bunch of deeply weird ways that are gonna screw me up. voice-verified

Like the Starbucks. voice-verified

app can't figure out that I don't live in California anymore. voice-verified

I don't have a lot of faith in Google Maps to get this right. voice-verified

But this is the sort of thing that I think like beyond all of the technology questions, Google is sitting in front of a million complicated user experience questions about actually is the AI supposed to be the same thing in your speaker and your house and your email and everywhere else? voice-verified

I don't know, but it's a super fun, weird question that Google is gonna have to answer kind of before anybody else. voice-verified

Or actually I think the classic Google fashion would be for them to almost work together, but never actually quite work together. voice-verified

That's the true Google way. voice-verified

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