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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
And with these kind of like productivity tools, until they're in your hands, you don't really know if anything has changed in your life or not.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I mean, I think they care about it.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I think that they just haven't built it yet.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
You know, fast and cheap is what you talk about when it isn't the best.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
And so that's what we're getting this year.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
But, you know, I am interested in trying these new agents.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I'll say I tried to use the new agent.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I said, let me know if Kevin Roos writes a good story, but it hasn't sent me anything.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
And so I don't know if it's broken or if the AI isn't working or what.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I mean, my real curiosity is, like, which of these agents are going to find true product market fit?
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
Like, which is the agent that is going to get a billion users?
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
Because we saw them show off what is effectively their version of OpenClaw, which definitely, like, had a big moment earlier this year.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
But it's still not clear to me that that is an actual mainstream use case.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
Like, I have to say, like, of everything they showed off, like, I'm not, like, dying to, like, have, you know, Gemini OpenClaw working overnight on my behalf because I don't know what I would have.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
Because you're not doing anything.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
You're generating recipes.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I'm building a bioweapon.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
But I don't want to say that in this crowd.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
They get sensitive about that sort of thing around here.
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
I mean, honestly, the only people that I have talked to are reporters and people who work at Google.