alt Hacker NewsHonestly, it seems like Rob Pike may have left Google around the same I did. (2021, 2022). Which was about when it became clear it was 100% down in the gutter without coming back.
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fidotron • last Friday at 4:39 PM
That has been clear since the Google Plus debacle, at the very least.
christophilus • last Friday at 3:55 PM
It was still a wildly wasteful company doing morally ambiguous things prior to that timeframe. I mean, its entire business model is tracking and ads— and it runs massive, high energy datacenters to make that happen.
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trimbo • last Friday at 4:11 PM
> Which was about when it became clear it was 100% down in the gutter without coming back.
Did you sell all of your stock?
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My take was that he had done enough work and had handed the reins of Go to a capable leader (rsc), and that it was time to step away.
Ian Lance Taylor on the other hand appeared to have quit specifically because of the "AI everything" mandate.
Just an armchair observation here.