πŸ’­ A quote from Steve Yegge ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ !https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/#atom-everything Date: April 13, 2026 Steve Yegge Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. … Simon Willison’s Weblog Β· simonwillison.net behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out. NOTE β”‚ This post is a thought </thoughts/>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts </tags/thoughts/>