But truly there's nothing easier than putting a couple bullets in a document and saying, "Now go forth, underlings, and make these bullets ring true! If you don't, you're fired and without health insurance."
We have pre-commit hooks to prevent people doing the wrong thing. We have all sorts of guardrails to help people.
And the “modern” approach when someone does something wrong is not to blame the person, but to ask “how did the system allow this mistake? What guardrails are missing?”
This is a classic play book by anyone who is anti regulation. Present it as something that appears to be ludicrous - eg “they are banning infinite scroll!” and rely on the fact that very few people will actually dig any deeper as you’ve already satisfied their need for a bit of rage.
I think that played a somewhat smaller role than Google seemingly gradually starting to take its position for granted and so everything became more focused on revenue generation and less focused on providing the highest quality experiences or results.
Beyond result quality it's absurd that it took LLMs to get meaningful natural language search. Google could have been working on that for many years, even if in a comparably simple manner, but seemingly never even bothered to try, even though that was always obviously going to be the next big step in search.
That's hilarious. God bless the old Atari who wanted to sue the world. The irony now of course is that Atari no longer own Battlezone's IP. Rebellion managed to grab it when Atari went bankrupt in 2013.
> One of the virtues of OKRs is that they are straightforward for managers to apply.
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