Comment by keybored
6 days ago
> A principal engineer at Google posted on Twitter that Claude Code did in an hour what the team couldn’t do in a year.
I’ll bring the tar if you bring the feathers.
That sounds hyperbolic but how can someone say something so outrageoulsy false.
as someone who worked at the company, i understood the meaning behind the tweet without the additional clarification. i think she assumed too much shared context when making the tweet
A principal engineer at Google made a public post on the World Wide Web and assumed some shared Google/Claude-context. Do you hear yourself?
Working in a large scale org gets you accustomed to general problems in decision making that aren’t that obvious. Like I totally understood what she means and in my head nodded with “yeah that tracks”.
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People make mistakes, it's not that deep. The correct incentive to encourage is admitting, and understand and forgiving when necessary because you don't want to encourage people to hide mistakes out of shame. That only makes things worse.
Especially considering forgetting the delta between yours and someone else's shared context is extremely common. And the least egregious mistake you can make when writing an untargeted promo post.
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Do you think people who work at Google are perfect?
Who are you referring to here? If you follow the link, you will see that the Google engineer did not say that.
I am quoting the person that I responded to. Which linked to this: https://xcancel.com/rakyll/status/2007659740126761033#m
> I’m not joking and this isn’t funny. We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Cloud Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.
So I see one error. GP said “couldn’t do”. The engineer really said “matched”.
The key words in the quote are "not everyone is aligned". It's not about execution ability.
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