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As an engineer, your job is to solve problems with the tools & resources at your disposal. AI is a tool that vastly improves your capacity to solve problems.

But inside that engineer is also a creative person enjoying manually writing code, and that inner person going to have an increasingly bad time at work (but can perhaps keep enjoying this as a hobby).

The case for doing what they did is that it helped a lot of people access books (eg school curriculum ones) in the middle of Covid (not everyone knows how to pirate things).

Not saying it was the right move but you can see where they're coming from, they wanted to help people.

Someone on Twitter said:

> You do realize that grant was issued several years before 2020? This is just how much was paid in 2020

> This is extremely misleading

Can you expand a bit on the quality of Google's internal practices with user data? eg what would an engineer on Google Photos need to do to be able to access my photos, if possible at all

No one repping the old drop sort. Just returns the first item of the list, which happens to be an ordered list. Simples.

I just hope there won't be too much of a performance impact on my browser or the page load times