Josh Robb @josh_robb
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I’m sorry but WHAT THE FUCK?!
This is correct. We had this same reaction in the 1980s & 1990s when compilers generated assembly for us. We hated it. Looking at the generated code made us puke. It got better.
This is correct. We had this same reaction in the 1980s & 1990s when compilers generated assembly for us. We hated it. Looking at the generated code made us puke. It got better.
This new DeepMind research shows just how broken vector search is. Turns out some docs in your index are theoretically incapable of being retrieved by vector search, given a certain dimension count of the embedding. Plain old BM25 from 1994 outperforms it on recall. 1/4
At @Google, we are moving from a writing‑first culture to a building‑first one. Writing was a proxy for clear thinking, optimized for scarce eng resources and long dev cycles - you had to get it right before you built. Now, when time to vibe-code prototype ≈ time to write PRD,…

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