S1: Google is shutting down its URL shortening service, so any
S1: links created with it will stop working. If you have
S1: any important links using the service, you want to migrate them.
S1: I'm pretty sure Google will soon sell YouTube to like
S1: Johnson and Johnson and Gmail to Luxottica, and then go
S1: full speed into the what the f are we doing business?
S1: Whatever business that is, it's the single most perplexing company
S1: like I've ever seen. They were first on Gen AI.
S1: They wrote the paper for Transformers, and now they're completely
S1: lapped by not just OpenAI, but anthropic as well. And
S1: now they're being lapped by meta, by meta in an
S1: open source model. How are you like fifth place when
S1: you have all the people and all the money and
S1: you actually invented the tech? They're like the opposite of Cloudflare,
S1: which does small things really well that add up over
S1: time because Google is like slowly dismantling everything. It's getting
S1: rid of all the best things that it has. The
S1: main thing Google is growing is the Google graveyard. Such
S1: a colossal waste of money and talent. And these failures
S1: should be studied for centuries. As an example of what
S1: happens when you don't lead with UX focused product management.
S1: Product management, like being in charge, like thinking about the
S1: customer and the total package and the total experience of
S1: this product or service that you're launching, as opposed to
S1: throw shit at the wall. Focused engineering and engineering is
S1: in charge of product. It makes no sense whatsoever. Like
S1: it is the most inefficient, like large organization I can
S1: imagine that I've ever seen.