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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 08:43:47 JST Dave Rahardja

   A friend of mine sent me these screencaps and I’m laughing so hard.

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   #google #googleGemini #googleNaming

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     Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 13:51:00 JST Dave Rahardja

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     • Zeh Fernando

     @zeh I’m sure it can be explained by looking at the incentives at play. Beats me what they are, though.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 13:51:00 JST clacke

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     • Zeh Fernando

     @drahardja You can't get promoted being a steward existing products and making incremental improvements, you have to be exceptional and launch a product in your name. It's what I hear and I believe it.

     @zeh Maybe they see the dysfunction but just find it impossible to see another way of managing careers, but I think it's just likely that they don't see the problem and think people who criticize it "just don't get it" and it's just "creative destruction", that they see it as vitality and business agility.

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     Zeh Fernando (zeh@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 13:51:02 JST Zeh Fernando

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     @drahardja I've seen plenty of corporate dysfunction from the inside to know people are dumb at scale, but Google's issues with naming and re-releasing shit is still so bad it's inexplicable to me.

     It can't just be "people want to get promoted" or whatever has been the ongoing narrative. It needs to be deeper. At this point, it HAS to be intentional in some baffling way. No sane leadership should approve this sort of move over and over.

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     Jacques Chester (jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 14:55:19 JST Jacques Chester

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     • BrianKrebs

     @drahardja @briankrebs

     GCP gets so badly held back by the pissfarting around that the rest of Google indulges in. Personally I’d split it off and change the name to Alphabet Cloud just to get away from the stink

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     this.ven (thisven@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 17:53:34 JST this.ven

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     @drahardja #Marketing people. :yayblob: A #JobPosition we could probably life without if somebody hasn't started selling #shallowness. But that's how some people are anyways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯