AI: Google Gemini and Advice from Boris
I will dig into Google over the next few days, but their Gemini-related releases over the past week will make their products stickier and will help play defense against Anthropic and OpenAI as it relates to Google Workspace driven automation. For example, use a Gemini agent to book your travel versus Claude with a Google connection.
Here’s a thought from Boris Cherny, Claude Code inventor, that resonated as being true insofar as working to get your organization to feel comfortable using AI is concerned:
“But I think nowadays a lot of the improvements are coming from people you just never would expect. It could be like an accountant somewhere in the corner of your org that just automates like accounting in a way that no engineer would have thought of. Um, it could be some marketer automating like marketing in a way that you never would have thought of.”
“The challenge is you can’t identify these engineers and these people ahead of time. You don’t know who they are and it’s almost always going to surprise you. And so the thing you want to do is let people experiment, give them safety, and then once there’s some kind of use case that scales up, that’s when you think about optimizing.”