Ex-Google. Views expressed are mine alone. He / Him.

Perth, Western Australia
Joined February 2007
I'm spending more of my time over on the butterfly app—same username there (and every other social media platform)
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This is why managers and teachers are often much better at using LLMs than coders. They are very experienced at working with fundamentally unreliable people to get things done, not perfectly, but within acceptable tolerances.
Replying to @charliermarsh
The key skill to develop in order to take advantage of LLMs is being able to find useful ways to apply a fundamentally unreliable technology Maybe the reason programmers find this hard is that the whole point of programming is that computers do exactly what you tell them to
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Some Personal News: This week I joined the Gemini Code Assist team in Google Cloud! I'll be leading the engineering team building genAI agents to assist developers. We have exciting things happening, but I'd love to hear what sorts of code assistant agents you'd like to see!
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In terms of social media, I'm spending most of my time over on the blue butterfly site, so come join me there to talk more about GenAI agents for developers 🙂
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Gemini-exp-1114 is now available via the Gemini API, happy building / testing! Will follow up Monday with more 🚢 ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc…
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Watch Starship's fifth flight test xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyogn…
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Trying to understand a codebase? This technique BLEW MY MIND. @retomeier told me to try uploading a code repo (after flipping all files to txt) and asking @GoogleAI NotebookLM (notebooklm.google/) to make a podcast from just the code. It did, and it was crazmazing.
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Good news for @GoogleAI developers: - Gemini 1.5 Flash price is now ~70% lower ($0.075 / 1M) - Gemini 1.5 Flash tuning available to all - Added support for 100+ new languages in the API - AI Studio is available to all workspace customers - Much more : ) developers.googleblog.com/en…
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KAMIKAZE L’AMOUR is: madness and love, rock and roll, synesthesia, a surreal trip through near future San Francisco and LA, and a wild ride into a green and vicious heart of darkness. Please help me bring my lost book back into print. kck.st/4bRv91i
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Me: Perth isn't *that* different to other cities Perth:
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models are the most expensive, the slowest, & the least capable that they'll ever be context windows are only going to get larger, models are just going to get cheaper, faster, more capable what could you build with infinite context, zero latency, no cost, unlimited tools use? – at Sunnyvale, CA
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We've also seen strong adoption of genAI in Google, for every part of employees' work (answering emails, analyzing data, summarizing bugs, automating code reviews, drafting docs, etc). "Getting the job done" is going to look completely different–for everyone–over the next year.
Over 30% of Zapier employees now have AI Zaps doing stuff automatically for them
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Reto Meier retweeted
🔥Breaking News from Arena Google's Bard has just made a stunning leap, surpassing GPT-4 to the SECOND SPOT on the leaderboard! Big congrats to @Google for the remarkable achievement! The race is heating up like never before! Super excited to see what's next for Bard + Gemini Ultra release.
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🙌 Proud to be a part of this team, and to boost this number even more in 2024! We're just starting. – at Morro Bay, CA
We've finally put out a detailed IEEE/ACM paper on @Google's multi-year effort to ease the burden of code review with ML. Google engineers now resolve 7.5% of all code review comments with an ML-suggested edit. But the path to that number has been a fun ML and UX journey!
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👋 Meet Duet AI for Developers! Start writing code at the speed of thought with #AI code completion, code generation, and a chatbot where you can ask any code-related questions in natural language. ✨ Try it today at no cost → goo.gle/3Nsyxpn
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Hi Google Cloud community. I'd love to get you though on Duet AI for networking. Please check out the quick form include in the post. Will leave it open for a few days. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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as generative models are quickly becoming commodities, companies will need to differentiate on user experience, distribution, and building strong data flywheels (meaning: How well can you attract and retain new users? How many landing surfaces do you have to capture data? What is the quality of those data? How well can you translate those user insights back into pretraining/fine-tuning your foundational models? etc.) it makes me wonder if we'll see a resurgence in developer relations; hyper-specific, personalized marketing; and UX roles (and eventually, services using genAI to fully automate those activities) // shower thoughts – at Palo Alto, CA
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My team at Google Deepmind in NYC is hiring research engineers! If you're interested in helping add new capabilities to large-scale generative models, please apply: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin… Feel free to reach out if you have questions :)
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I'm most interested in toil-reduction feature: Things like writing unit tests or adding code comments—or checking if the code does what my comments say it should, and if my unit tests are capturing all the possible failure cases.
So now that I can talk about Duet AI in Cloud a bit, what I'm actually interested in is what y'all want! What GenAI features do you think will make your Google Cloud experience more efficient (and more fun)?
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