Joined 17 years ago
On topic: thanks for this great summary of the issue. I too miss the prime stackoverflow days. Although the availability of LLMs has allowed me to learn new things and generate some code again, the passion and love for programming that was on (the early) stackoverflow, I do miss. Also the times of just buying a book to learn about a new tool or language (jQuery in Action teached me a lot) feels different from just asking Claude Code to fix or explain something.
Adding personalised highlights of topics of interest into the monthly emails is my top priority for 2026. Won't be too complicated, just have to set up the right API back-and-forths etc.
Good point about deep dives. I could do that for the topics I'm an expert in, however, by definition, I think this requires domain expertise and is therefore not scalable nor to be automated easily. I'm not sure if this fits the scope of the current project as I want people to find the papers of interest, read a quick summarization and then encourage them to read a selection of papers themselves.
As an MD, soon to have a PhD in oncology immunology, I always wonder what project Google could be working on in this area. After all they are a company and most probably try to develop products that will yield a return in the future. So why would someone chose to work for a Google firm that has no real track record in the Life Sciences versus the many life-science companies that already have amazing logistics/experience in place (Novartis, Biogen, Takeda to name just a few in Cambridge, MA). Outside "data-science" projects like genomics, or very technical project like lab-on-a-chip devices, I wouldn't see a big advantage moving to the bay area. However, I guess offering huge salaries always helps convincing people to join your company. And the winters in the Mountain View are probably warmer than the Boston area.
