Not even being ex-Googlers with initial Google backing could save them
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show:
- They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month
- Currently losing $9 million a month
- They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work
www.404media.co/character-ai...
- They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month
- Currently losing $9 million a month
- They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work
www.404media.co/character-ai...
Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
www.404media.co
October 14, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Not even being ex-Googlers with initial Google backing could save them
Anthropic missed an opportunity calling their code review system Andrian instead of Antique
(long time Googlers would know)
(long time Googlers would know)
October 15, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Anthropic missed an opportunity calling their code review system Andrian instead of Antique
(long time Googlers would know)
(long time Googlers would know)
bunch of googlers went on sabbatical to build healthcare.gov and we probably are going to need that kind of civic response across a bunch of domains
Live look at DC lawyers flooding to apply back to DOJ in 2 years and 3 months
World War Z
ALT: World War Z
static.klipy.com
October 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
bunch of googlers went on sabbatical to build healthcare.gov and we probably are going to need that kind of civic response across a bunch of domains
Any startup that hires enough ex-Googlers ends up with an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google infra
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.
www.anthropic.com
October 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Any startup that hires enough ex-Googlers ends up with an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google infra
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Google bought their brain trust (who were ex-Googlers) and left a shell behind.
October 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Google bought their brain trust (who were ex-Googlers) and left a shell behind.
On a *real heckin' note* - most NPCI employees are Googlers and I *will not accept* a counter to this conspiracy theory. I'm the mentally ill one. Fight *me.*
October 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
On a *real heckin' note* - most NPCI employees are Googlers and I *will not accept* a counter to this conspiracy theory. I'm the mentally ill one. Fight *me.*
The only parasites that are sad are like the googlers cnn, and Lawrence , no, I’m not giving meet earle fame.
October 13, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The only parasites that are sad are like the googlers cnn, and Lawrence , no, I’m not giving meet earle fame.
🚀 Software engineering: Googlers are using Argon to ship code faster than ever. In @Antigravity, they increased agentic code submissions by over 35% with rollbacks cut by nearly a third.
October 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
🚀 Software engineering: Googlers are using Argon to ship code faster than ever. In @Antigravity, they increased agentic code submissions by over 35% with rollbacks cut by nearly a third.
This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline:
@pcalcado:
Any startup that hires enough ex-Googlers ends up with an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google infra
@pcalcado:
Any startup that hires enough ex-Googlers ends up with an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google infra
October 14, 2026 at 8:48 AM
This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline:
@pcalcado:
Any startup that hires enough ex-Googlers ends up with an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google infra
@pcalcado:
Any startup that hires enough ex-Googlers ends up with an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Google infra
Here are custom designed Noogler cupcakes from the Google Dublin office. Nooglers are new Googlers who just got hired by Google. So Google gave them special cupcakes.
Noogler Cupcakes
Here are custom designed Noogler cupcakes from the Google Dublin office. Nooglers are new Googlers who just got hired by Google. So Google gave them special cupcakes.
www.seroundtable.com
October 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Here are custom designed Noogler cupcakes from the Google Dublin office. Nooglers are new Googlers who just got hired by Google. So Google gave them special cupcakes.
Googlers, Monday is National Gumbo Day and National Pulled Pork Day. Bring your energy to Cycling @ 5pm and we'll cook this workout. 🚴♂️
October 12, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Googlers, Monday is National Gumbo Day and National Pulled Pork Day. Bring your energy to Cycling @ 5pm and we'll cook this workout. 🚴♂️
Noogler cupcakes at Google Dublin
Noogler Cupcakes
Here are custom designed Noogler cupcakes from the Google Dublin office. Nooglers are new Googlers who just got hired by Google. So Google gave them special cupcakes.
www.seroundtable.com
October 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Noogler cupcakes at Google Dublin
Former Googlers dropped rare infrastructure lore: Orkut started as an in-house 20% project running on C# and .NET inside Google. It had to be rewritten in Java and C++, and ended up as the first production user of Bigtable. #programming 2/4
October 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Former Googlers dropped rare infrastructure lore: Orkut started as an in-house 20% project running on C# and .NET inside Google. It had to be rewritten in Java and C++, and ended up as the first production user of Bigtable. #programming 2/4
Some great use cases from Googlers building with Gemini 4 Argon 🧵 It has a much stronger grasp of coding and multi-step tool use - starting from a raw Pixel CAD file in Google Antigravity, Argon created this exploded-view animation, lighting, camera choreography, and audio
October 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Some great use cases from Googlers building with Gemini 4 Argon 🧵 It has a much stronger grasp of coding and multi-step tool use - starting from a raw Pixel CAD file in Google Antigravity, Argon created this exploded-view animation, lighting, camera choreography, and audio
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/gem… #AI #Google #Gemini
October 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/gem… #AI #Google #Gemini
"As workers of conscience, we demand that our leadership end our backslide into contracting for governments enacting violence against civilians . . . and demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor."
www.googlers-against-ice.com @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @alphabetworkersunion.org
www.googlers-against-ice.com @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @alphabetworkersunion.org
Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency
www.googlers-against-ice.com
October 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
"As workers of conscience, we demand that our leadership end our backslide into contracting for governments enacting violence against civilians . . . and demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor."
www.googlers-against-ice.com @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @alphabetworkersunion.org
www.googlers-against-ice.com @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @alphabetworkersunion.org
Gemini 4 Argon: Google reports 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 (a record, per Google) and a 1M-token output limit. Bloomberg says some Googlers doubt its real-world coding. Benchmarks aren't daily use. Source: CNBC, Oct 1.
October 7, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Gemini 4 Argon: Google reports 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 (a record, per Google) and a 1M-token output limit. Bloomberg says some Googlers doubt its real-world coding. Benchmarks aren't daily use. Source: CNBC, Oct 1.
Apple faz investimento na Huxe, startup de IA fundada por ex-Googlers
Apple faz investimento na Huxe, startup de IA fundada por ex-Googlers
De acordo com a Comissão Europeia, que mantém uma página com as aquisições de empresas consideradas gatekeepers, a Apple fez um investimento na Huxe, startup focada em inteligência artificial (IA) que desenvolve uma "aplicação móvel que cria conteúdo de áudio personalizado". Ainda segundo as informa
macmagazine.com.br
October 9, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Apple faz investimento na Huxe, startup de IA fundada por ex-Googlers
Maybe, but the frontier AI labs in Silicon Valley (OAI, Anthropic, even some Googlers) are associated with a weird ass cult. So, there's a lot of woo woo in certain sectors of this conversation.
October 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Maybe, but the frontier AI labs in Silicon Valley (OAI, Anthropic, even some Googlers) are associated with a weird ass cult. So, there's a lot of woo woo in certain sectors of this conversation.
We sat down with Googlers behind our latest research project to learn how our new ultrasound technology works and what our latest research on it could mean for the future of global maternal healthcare.
goo.gle/4j7uMWY
goo.gle/4j7uMWY
Ask a Scientist: How are researchers using AI to help pregnant women access ultrasounds?
By pairing AI with “blind sweep” ultrasounds, Google researchers found a way to get more people the prenatal ultrasounds they need.
goo.gle
October 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
We sat down with Googlers behind our latest research project to learn how our new ultrasound technology works and what our latest research on it could mean for the future of global maternal healthcare.
goo.gle/4j7uMWY
goo.gle/4j7uMWY
We sat down with two Googlers to learn more about the research, and what it could mean for the potential future of ultrasound access worldwide.
https://goo.gle/4jb4q6z
https://goo.gle/4jb4q6z
Ask a Scientist: How are researchers using AI to help pregnant women access ultrasounds?
By pairing AI with “blind sweep” ultrasounds, Google researchers found a way to get more people the prenatal ultrasounds they need.
goo.gle
October 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
We sat down with two Googlers to learn more about the research, and what it could mean for the potential future of ultrasound access worldwide.
https://goo.gle/4jb4q6z
https://goo.gle/4jb4q6z
Googlers, Monday is National Apple Betty Day. Wanna join me for Cycling @ 5pm? Let's do this! 🚴♂️
October 5, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Googlers, Monday is National Apple Betty Day. Wanna join me for Cycling @ 5pm? Let's do this! 🚴♂️
If I happen to have any Googlers following me - the #GoogleBooks API is broken.
issuetracker.google.com/issues/56930...
issuetracker.google.com/issues/56930...
Google Issue Tracker
issuetracker.google.com
October 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
If I happen to have any Googlers following me - the #GoogleBooks API is broken.
issuetracker.google.com/issues/56930...
issuetracker.google.com/issues/56930...
If I happen to have any Googlers following me - The #googlebooks API is broken.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/569300353
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/569300353
October 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
If I happen to have any Googlers following me - The #googlebooks API is broken.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/569300353
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/569300353