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ML Engineer | Founder @Abide AI | Writing LLMOps book for O'Reilly

GOOGLE HAS ONCE AGAIN MANAGED TO DO THE UNTHINKABLE (OR NOT SO MUCH, ESP GIVEN THEIR MOST RECENT REPUTATION) So Google has fired almost their entire Python team which is responsible for upstream updates in Python amongst many other things. Seemingly the hypothesis is that while they will continue to build in Python but the Python Support Team they have internally is only doing maintenance work and they can bring in cheap labour to do this maintenance. What a dumb and short-sighted move given Python isn't going anywhere for the AI/ML community and core dev team vision can rarely if ever be replaced. Who makes their strategic decisions for them? Some dumb MBA that's good at only doing balance sheets?! 👓 Read more: 🔗 in comments

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Abi Aryan 🦉

ML Engineer | Founder @Abide AI | Writing LLMOps book for O'Reilly

3mo

Cheap labour argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125 Everything this team was responsible for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338

There is a lot of miss information Google is not removing python from their arsenal. they are removing the foundational team which is in USA and replace them with new faces in Munich. Google is in the AI frontier now do you guys really believe they will remove python?

Vedran B.

Junior Full-Stack Developer

3mo

So Google doesn't want to use Python anymore? I think that Python is as a server backend is a poor choice of tooling, there are far better alternatives. It's good for scripting and Excel.

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Paul Hunt

Data Engineering | Business Analysis

3mo

A push to increase the relevance of Go???

Andy McMahon

Principal AI & MLOps Engineer @ Barclays | Author | Award Winner | Visiting Lecturer @ Oxford, Warsaw

3mo

It doesn’t look good on paper - but playing Devil’s advocate, maybe they now have enough distributed Python experience that having a small central team isn’t worth it anymore? Or they’re moving away from Google specific patches (not sure how much I’d believe that one).

James Bentley

AI and Strategy Director @ Awin (Axel Springer)

3mo

Any thoughts on whether, or how this might impact Colab?

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Mikko Ohtamaa

CEO, co-founder at Trading Strategy

3mo

It was not fired. The team was moved to Netherlands / Germany where they can hire more maintainers for the same amount of cash burn. Californian developers on average cost 3x - 4x amount you can get in Europe, not to speak about other countries. I am quite sure Europe has good Python developers as well.

Ivan Rendulic

Engineering Apps from/since 1999, Software Architect

3mo

Veliki gledaju što rade mali, a ne obratno. Probajte nešto novo a dobro staro. Npr. https://www.triz40.com/aff_Principles_TRIZ.php

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Edgar Aguilar Meza

Father of three | Global AI Consulting Lead @ Mastercard | Amazon, Samsung and Deloitte alumnus.

3mo

Not all MBAs know how to do balance sheets ;)

Carlos Tasayco Silva

Data engineer | Data Science

3mo

well remote job world new age

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