I'm not sure why, exactly. But I don't pay any attention to news like this from Google. I don't know if there's some marketing which has me writing them off or if it's something else.
What I do know is that the Gemini integration into sheets is surprisingly incapable of performing basic tasks. This is where I expect Google to really shine. I expected Sheets + Gemini to be magical like Google Photos was. I hardly try anymore besides some basic math questions when I don't feel like inputting the formula myself.
The other thing I know is Google's propensity to sunset products. For many things, it's not a huge deal. And it may not be for this. But, why? When there are alternatives - both open and closed.
I have been ignoring GCP Account folks forever and I previously posted about how useless those motherfuckers are and how I tell them I am NOT going to speak with them again, ever.
Recently, they went to our Co-President and he, similarly and thankfully, ignored them. So what did those fucking assholes do? They went to our board members and got one of them to make me have to do a bunch of needless work responding, in depth, to one of their LLM-generated decks that is generic and doesn't at all consider anything we're doing, a good bit of which was centered around agentic-foo bullshit.
* Conversational Client Analytics in Looker: Deploy natural language conversational data discovery
* AI Agent Development Kit Core: Construct autonomous analytics agents with Google Agent Development Kit
* Generative Search Performance Tracker: Track brand visibility across AI answer engines using Gemini 3.1 Pro.
* Autonomous Retail Media Campaign Orchestrator: Automate retail media catalog enrichment and ad optimization with Gemini
* Agentic Workforce Collaboration in Workspace: Deploy Gemini Enterprise wall-to-wall for automated agency pitch creation.
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They're exhausting. We already do most of these things better than they suggest (really; who the fuck thinks 'conversational analytics in Looker' is exciting in 2026? No one capable, that's for fucking sure) and it's clear that some MBA motherfucker just decided to use Gemini to push a bunch of garbage that is ignored by those who are technically and financially apt and elevate to the persons who don't know shit from shinola in order to try and get some consultant in the door to sell shit that companies already have and are doing.
It's fucking absurd.
I hope someone with some pull over there reads this and slaps this shit down and fast. It's really fucking annoying and needs to stop 4y ago.
I'd evaluated both Google's Agent Substrate (that underlies Ax) and their Scion project. I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well. Ax/Agent Substrate is much more a greenfield independent effort, it's own thing.
I think Scion has so much more mature a disosition: you could write OpenCode plugins that enhance the runner, and use that locally, and use it in Scion. With Ax/Agent Substrate, you are opting in to a pretty huge stack that is just Agent Substrate, that is their runners, their harness, their substrate. I do think their actor model is pretty neat! It's neat having the agent have such primacy! But it feels so much less integrative, is such it's own thing. Scion, to me, is much more interesting an effort, that similarly helps scale out agentic workloads.
I'm not sure why, exactly. But I don't pay any attention to news like this from Google. I don't know if there's some marketing which has me writing them off or if it's something else.
What I do know is that the Gemini integration into sheets is surprisingly incapable of performing basic tasks. This is where I expect Google to really shine. I expected Sheets + Gemini to be magical like Google Photos was. I hardly try anymore besides some basic math questions when I don't feel like inputting the formula myself.
The other thing I know is Google's propensity to sunset products. For many things, it's not a huge deal. And it may not be for this. But, why? When there are alternatives - both open and closed.
This is an Apache 2.0 open source project
I have been ignoring GCP Account folks forever and I previously posted about how useless those motherfuckers are and how I tell them I am NOT going to speak with them again, ever.
Recently, they went to our Co-President and he, similarly and thankfully, ignored them. So what did those fucking assholes do? They went to our board members and got one of them to make me have to do a bunch of needless work responding, in depth, to one of their LLM-generated decks that is generic and doesn't at all consider anything we're doing, a good bit of which was centered around agentic-foo bullshit.
* Conversational Client Analytics in Looker: Deploy natural language conversational data discovery
* AI Agent Development Kit Core: Construct autonomous analytics agents with Google Agent Development Kit
* Generative Search Performance Tracker: Track brand visibility across AI answer engines using Gemini 3.1 Pro.
* Autonomous Retail Media Campaign Orchestrator: Automate retail media catalog enrichment and ad optimization with Gemini
* Agentic Workforce Collaboration in Workspace: Deploy Gemini Enterprise wall-to-wall for automated agency pitch creation.
---
They're exhausting. We already do most of these things better than they suggest (really; who the fuck thinks 'conversational analytics in Looker' is exciting in 2026? No one capable, that's for fucking sure) and it's clear that some MBA motherfucker just decided to use Gemini to push a bunch of garbage that is ignored by those who are technically and financially apt and elevate to the persons who don't know shit from shinola in order to try and get some consultant in the door to sell shit that companies already have and are doing.
It's fucking absurd.
I hope someone with some pull over there reads this and slaps this shit down and fast. It's really fucking annoying and needs to stop 4y ago.
k8sification of AI was always inevitable, if only as a form of salary justification.
Ah yes, k8s8n.
Question: What is Google's track record for where their open source releases end up over time?
Genuinely not knowledgeable here
I can understand why it was chosen, but I'm not a fan of writing a bunch of yaml.
I'd evaluated both Google's Agent Substrate (that underlies Ax) and their Scion project. I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well. Ax/Agent Substrate is much more a greenfield independent effort, it's own thing.
I think Scion has so much more mature a disosition: you could write OpenCode plugins that enhance the runner, and use that locally, and use it in Scion. With Ax/Agent Substrate, you are opting in to a pretty huge stack that is just Agent Substrate, that is their runners, their harness, their substrate. I do think their actor model is pretty neat! It's neat having the agent have such primacy! But it feels so much less integrative, is such it's own thing. Scion, to me, is much more interesting an effort, that similarly helps scale out agentic workloads.
https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/scion