Even in the worst case scenario, it would be as easy as making the AI <div> invisible. Which is a 5 minute job. Well, for a bug tech company 10 hours, since they are horribly inefficient. But 10 hours is nothing in order to please a customer at the scale of Google.
The search is still there. It’s just pushed down by the AI window. Which takes a great part of the screen.
It would take 5 minutes for the AI to code it and 10 hours for engineers to go through the diff and make sure it does what they told it too. That’s how you think with tokens.
Are they disabling search to force an initiative or are they disabling search because they can’t separate it from the AI features anymore?
Even in the worst case scenario, it would be as easy as making the AI
<div>invisible. Which is a 5 minute job. Well, for a bug tech company 10 hours, since they are horribly inefficient. But 10 hours is nothing in order to please a customer at the scale of Google.The search is still there. It’s just pushed down by the AI window. Which takes a great part of the screen.
It would take 5 minutes for the AI to code it and 10 hours for engineers to go through the diff and make sure it does what they told it too. That’s how you think with tokens.
Two things can be true…
I’d not thought it it this way but in the state of the world this makes a lot of sense