Buy local is a well known and used tactic globally in many places big and small. Another observation, saying it is nationalistic is odd given it involves multiple nationalities. US has protectionist policy EU has it, there is nothing new here. The odd thing is that it triggers the person for it being so small.
It is good to have a dedicated location to find these. The problem is that you want a sufficiently large company when buying the services so that it does not fall apart or get acquired and runs to the ground, and we have a few. Also, putting a country flag to the service is cringe, it might even be odd to some because it implies a specific language/culture. We just all want to consume a proper business staffed with pros and the one which does not resell AWS services.
Did a bit of soul searching and manually optimised to 1087 but I give up. What is the number we are chasing here? IMO I would not join a company giving such a vague problem because you can feel really bad afterwards, especially if this does not open a door to the next stage of the interview. As an alternative we could all instead focus on a real kernel and improve it :)
Author of the take-home here: That's quite a good cycle count, substantially better than Claude's, you should email it to performance-recruiting@anthropic.com.
IMO the idea of providing more in OSS usually stems from various third parties who use that code in production but do not really contribute back to it. The only sensible thing the person publishing code online needs to do is to protect their copyright and add a license. This weird idea that somehow you become responsible for the code to the point that you need to patch every vulnerability and bug, and now identify the use of AI is wrong on so many levels. For the record I’ve been publishing OSS for years.
Personally for me, who is bought into the Apple ecosystem this is worrying. I am aware how PCC is supposed to work (which is the likely target platform) but the deal with Google of all the companies sends bad signal to consumers who are privacy focussed. If such a feature will be baked in without a way to switch it off, the next device will not be iphone or macbook or ipad.
You can already run quantized models without much friction, people also have dedicated apps for that. It changes very little for people because they everyone who wanted to do it already solved it and those who do not they dont care. It is marginal gain from consumer, a feature to brag about for apple, big gain for google. Users also would need to change existing habits which is undoubtedly hard to do.
When my wife picked up her replacement passport, they had a scanning machine in the waiting room so you could check the NFC details before leaving the premises. (it also happily told me what my blue one reported over NFC)
Depending on Google’s explicit product to build a startup is crazy. There is a risk of them changing APIs or offerings or features without the ability to actually complain, they are not a great B2B company.
I hope you just use the API and can switch easily to any other provider.
I bet the core of the problem for Google is that more folks use programmatic access to search which is not great on their side. Naturally you end up using Serp or other similar search APIs as they are great for the job. I believe this is also an issue especially in cases where search is performed on behalf of the user (scripts, ai tools). Google is just losing ground here, why would they bother otherwise, think what will happen to their stock if the search usage will drop? Another thing is that this builds pressure to whoever is integrating such a search tool in their products, clearly Google wants to grab that market as well.
I’d agree on most of these but the biggest value in such a list is for the writer to actually put it on paper. You have to reflect on multiple aspects in your career and synthesise those. Reading them is close to useless, like scanning a page full of news, it all just evaporates once you start your daily work routine.
The best suggestion would probably be to try and write such a list yourself IMO.
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