Hey Google, write an article called "I Fired Google."
(Although, based on the tone, I think it's Grok.)
I Fired Google
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#32> I don't need a four-minute explanation. I don't need context. I don't need a balanced discussion that considers multiple viewpoints and concludes with a summary.
Karen, you mean you don't want those things. Stop confusing want and need.
- The Manager.
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#33I have an android phone which means I use android auto fairly often. The sheer quality destruction it's experienced since transitioning to Gemini is incredible. I experience this mostly when asking for music. Before gemini, mistakes were common but deterministic. It was easy to understand where the query had gone wrong and so how to fix it. Example: "Hey google, play Blackstar " (Plays the album blackstar by David Bo…
Same thing with Google homes.
Pre-gemini, you knew what you would get, basically the structured snippets that would appear at the top of the search results.
Now it's much more verbose.
My biggest gripe is that it basically stopped listening to me, since "upgrading" to Gemini, which is frustrating because I've used it to control the Hue lights for the past decade.
It listens to my partner though, so after it fails to listen to me, I have to ask her to ask Google to adjust the fing lights.
Welp
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#34> Then I went directly to Amazon and ordered an Alexa. Dear lord.
And how about this:
> The closest I could get to punching Google in the ear and ripping out its nose hairs.
As if giving more money to another shitty megacorp for another frustrating device is going to make any difference to the first shitty megacorp.
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#35I Fired theartofdoingstuff.com for extremely obnoxious ads - particularly the "Would you like to save this stuff?" one that greys out the rest of the article you're trying to read to... checks notes ... ask if you want the article emailed to you? Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
It is ironic that so many articles calling out enshittification are themselves examples of the same.
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#36> Nobody asked for cars that require IT support and 3 sub-menus to lower the air conditioning. (Screens are cheaper to install than buttons and knobs.) perhaps, but people did ask for cheaper cars.
and we ended up with new cars being 2x expensive even after adjusting with inflation somehow
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#37> Then I went directly to Amazon and ordered an Alexa. Dear lord.
I sadly did the same as I didn't know best. The Google speakers started to have issues identifying the orders, so we bought some alexas, which we also use as speakers for our tvs.
Do you have a better recommendation of a smart speaker that can play spotify, youtube music, or tidal?
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#38> Nobody asked for cars that require IT support and 3 sub-menus to lower the air conditioning. (Screens are cheaper to install than buttons and knobs.) perhaps, but people did ask for cheaper cars.
But nobody got cheaper cars. The shareholders on the other hand asked for a third yacht, and they got exactly what they wanted (after the car manufacturer fired the team which used to do usability testing for their interface)
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#39I have an android phone which means I use android auto fairly often. The sheer quality destruction it's experienced since transitioning to Gemini is incredible. I experience this mostly when asking for music. Before gemini, mistakes were common but deterministic. It was easy to understand where the query had gone wrong and so how to fix it. Example: "Hey google, play Blackstar " (Plays the album blackstar by David Bo…
Perhaps Gemini's been training on sources too young to listen to Radiohead.
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#40Apparently you haven't fired Cloudflare, since this website forces me to go through a captcha in order to read (and I'm not even using a VPN or Tor).