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Re: Google I/O

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Post by sdeiley »

dvt wrote: post #56

I was curious and just installed it, and... Antigravity is a literal clone of VSCode. Wtf? Honestly, it's so embarassing. I might write a blog post about this, but I remember falling in love with the art of product watching Google demo Google Wave. Janky sure, ahead-of-its-time maybe, but also visionary and mind-blowing. Here we are almost two decades later and Google is re-releasing something made by Microsoft. The…

Do you realize they're sunsetting Antigtavity IDE? The Antigravity 2.0 they demoed is not an IDE

Re: Google I/O

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Post by esseph »

PokeyCat wrote: post #170

Ugh. Was really hoping that they were going to actually announce a release date for the display glasses this year at I/O, but it seems that they still don't have the tech ready for this. Audio only this year is a massive disappointment.

> Audio only this year is a massive disappointment.

Maybe for you. There's been a lot of pushback against glasses and video recording.

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Post by nout »

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #16

Why would I want to vibe code a "fully functional operating system"?

I want to do that. Last week there was an article from a person that vibed their whole system in assembly and it was super fast and it did exactly what the person wanted and nothing else. That was eye opening.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by throwa356262 »

arionmiles wrote: post #100

Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.

Google IO is for developers not consumers

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Post by suttontom »

southbay567 wrote: post #194
r_lee wrote: post #61

can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI)…

Honestly getting tired of this knee jerk anti-AI stance here on HN. We’re talking about the most revolutionary technology in history that’s going to change every facet of our lives. It’s getting toxic, now we have people getting booed at graduations for just mentioning AI. There will be a transition but it’s not the end of the world. Don’t cling to the past, look forward to the future.

This is such a creepy dystopian thing to say. Don't you realize that? Isn't this "yes, there will be pain, but the future is inevitable and we must go forward into it" attitude straight out of multiple horror and sci-fi stories?

Edit: Nevermind, parent is an LLM/bot.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by suttontom »

numlock86 wrote: post #108
r_lee wrote: post #61

can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI)…

While I get your point, this kind of gives me "Old man yelling at cloud" vibes. Yes, all the AI talk and bullshit bingo became quite annoying at this point, and I also can't wait for it to settle. But AI is here, and it's here to stay. Wether we like it or not. It's like what dotcom was for the internet back then. We'll get through this eventually - with a bubble bursting here and there - but making fun of it with ov…

You do know that this was the same thing people said about crypto, right? And that the internet of things where your fridge connects to the Internet is hated by most consumers and had nowhere near the impact that IoT evangelists said it would?

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Post by weikju »

thewebguyd wrote: post #240
nunez wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.

Jobs understood sales in a way that no one else running these tech demos/keynotes seem to. Specifically "show, don't tell." Look at the MacBook Air launch. Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was, or list product dimensions on a spec sheet. He just pulled it out of an envelope. Likewise with the iPod. "1,000 songs in your pocket" not "It has a real hard drive with 5GB of storage."

> Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was

"What is the MacBook Air? In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook". [1] Then goes about listing product weight and dimensions of competitors. Granted he then visually compared the thinness, but still listed numbers.

THEN he mentioned the envelope and pulled it out... Then more specs (in the Apple style like it looks good, has a multi-touch trackpad, etc, followed by actual HDD/SDD size, and CPU spec available).

Masterfully done and well-presented regardless!

AND the product was right then and there and he could demo it and use it live

[1] https://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M?si=jRquaJCUw4Gng7GJ&t=35

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Post by shaftway »

nevi-me wrote: post #211

The keynote was the most boring for me. I paused it to go to the bathroom, and even forgot that I was watching it. I think they've lost track of the meaning of IO and its keynotes for users. They should rather have a separate Gemini event like they had a separate Android one last week. They're collectively losing track of their product verticals because they're too focused on shoving AI down everything. Google Home i…

This is the result of systemic problems at Google:

- Launching is rewarded, keeping the lights on is not

- The hot new teams get far more resources than tried and true ones

You could sum this up in three words as "new is better".

This is why Google Home is getting worse. It worked well enough, but nobody gets promoted for keeping it like that. People get promoted for launching something new on that platform and cherry-picking statistics to show that they had "impact".

This is why everything at the keynote was AI. AI is the new hot dumpster fire that every resource is being poured into. And including AI in every product gives so many people the opportunity to launch new stuff, and demonstrate "impact".

And while I/O is for developers, you'd be foolish if you thought that Wall St. wasn't paying attention. Stock was down $10 for the day before I/O started, but during that keynote it gained $5. It didn't hold it, but clearly the keynote affected the stock price. Sundar knows this.

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Post by dvt »

sdeiley wrote: post #251
dvt wrote: post #56

I was curious and just installed it, and... Antigravity is a literal clone of VSCode. Wtf? Honestly, it's so embarassing. I might write a blog post about this, but I remember falling in love with the art of product watching Google demo Google Wave. Janky sure, ahead-of-its-time maybe, but also visionary and mind-blowing. Here we are almost two decades later and Google is re-releasing something made by Microsoft. The…

Do you realize they're sunsetting Antigtavity IDE? The Antigravity 2.0 they demoed is not an IDE

Did you install Antigravity 2.0? It literally asks you to run a git command 30 seconds in lol.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by [deleted] »

Corence wrote: post #80
jerrygarcia wrote: post #40

Demo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party

Unironically you can put "what are good demos for agentic workflows at Google I/O that would be received well by the general public" into Gemini's AI Mode and get better suggestions for use cases than what they're showing.

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