Devika

Too literal to be funny. Tinkering @GoogleLabs.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

New video:
Why some PMs’ careers skyrocket while others get stuck in 2 places
- senior ICs aiming for more scope & impact
- GPMs/Directors aiming for VP/CPO roles
Plus, the skills you need to get unstuck:
https://t.co/YasxQ0lgkn

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Gemini gets things done across the apps you use every day. Starting today, another wave of integrations are rolling out. If you want to partner with us, DM me.

Angi (formerly Angie's List)
Fever
GetYourGuide
Granola
iHeartRadio
Localiza
OpenTable
Otter
Pandora
Thumbtack
Ticketmaster
Wix
Zocdoc
Zoho

[Devika @dev1ka]

@rakowski_brian I guess I'm going to Mt Tam!

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

🚀One billion for Gemini! Our goal remains to make it the most personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. Here’s what we’re learning from the first billion, and what’s coming next…

[Radhika Gaonkar @GaonkarRadhika]

Excited to share that I'll be presenting at the Agentic AI Summit at UC Berkeley on August 2! I’ll share my work on building robust evaluators that detect brittle verifier behavior in long-horizon agents trained with automated rewards https://t.co/a1KsAYvQrt

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

We progress as a society not when we get exam reform.
We progress as a society when young people have hundreds of options, and exams don't matter.

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Gemini does more than talk. It gets things done.

Today’s use case: Drop in a school calendar PDF. Tell Gemini to add every "No School" day to your Google Calendar. Done.

📍Gemini Spark is live now for all Google AI Pro subscribers in the US, expanding globally next.

[Google @Google]

At #GoogleIO, we shared a new experiment that's bringing better and more immersive group meetings to Google Beam, our true-to-life video communication platform. See what’s new:

🏢 Using HP Dimension's immersive display, Google Beam renders participants joining from non-Beam devices in their true size, positioned as if they were sitting around the table with you.
🔈 Spatial audio that anchors each voice directly to the person speaking, so everyone looks, sounds and feels like they are in the same room.
🤝 A deep network of partners, including @HP, @GoogleWorkspace and @Zoom.

[Dan Hockenmaier @danhockenmaier]

Four types of people at every company now

yes, people get 10x better when the go from bottom right to top right

but also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left

[Devika @dev1ka]

A real challenge I'm facing as a product builder is preventing "Product Slop"

In the rush to ship AI, it’s easy to confuse velocity with quality. Just because you’re building fast doesn't mean you're building right.

Stay safe out there, builders.

[Devika @dev1ka]

Using Claude Code to build a simple app for a high context problem. It's been thinking for 40 min... I worry I may have wasted too many of Earth's precious resources. Feeding it a one pager would have been faster.

[Devika @dev1ka]

Friendly reminder for those tinkering with personalized bots 🦞 🤖

I recently did an audit and realized just how many "temporary" screenshots of passwords and plain-text credentials were still sitting in Photos/Drive from years ago.

If you're giving an AI agent access to your world, take 10 minutes today to scrub your notes and photos for sensitive data. Move that data to a secure vault and keep your shared context clean.

[Devika @dev1ka]

💯

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

the trick is to remember you’re alive at the exact moment the age of AI is turning on.

you're not watching it from the sidelines, you're not reading about it years later etc

you're actually here, with access, tools, and a blank canvas at the greatest shift in history to ship your ideas.

every big shift creates a new set of incumbents.
every big shifts creates a new set of legends
every big shifts creates winners and losers.

make money if you want. make art if you want. make impact if you want. ideally all three.

this is an ultra rare moment where the rules are loose, the map is unfinished, and the upside is wide open.

[Devika @dev1ka]

Have they not been to Bangalore?

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Worst traffic congestion.

1. 🇺🇸 NY City
2. 🇲🇽 Mexico City
3. 🇬🇧 London
4. 🇫🇷 Paris
5. 🇺🇸 Chicago
6. 🇹🇷 Istanbul
7. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles
8. 🇺🇸 Boston
9. 🇿🇦 Cape Town
10. 🇮🇩 Jakarta
11. 🇺🇸 Miami
12. 🇦🇺 Brisbane
13. 🇺🇸 Philadelphia
14. 🇹🇭 Bangkok
15. 🇮🇹 Rome
16. 🇮🇪 Dublin

(INRIX)

[Devika @dev1ka]

Full article: https://t.co/nhnNVrGtXV

[Devika @dev1ka]

My mantra to not burning out after spending over a decade in the tech industry?

Balancing my energy by pairing a draining task with an energizing one.

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Meet our most beautiful update for Video Overviews yet, now helping people understand complex topics in 6 new styles

(My favorite style is Retro Print!)

[Devika @dev1ka]

Are robots finally learning to really think and act in our world? 🤔 My latest piece dives into Google's Gemini Robotics 1.5, exploring how this dual-model architecture is ushering in a new era for physical AI.
https://t.co/J2Odeo9xUW

[Devika @dev1ka]

I'm delighted by the Adventure Outlook Calendar on @AccuWeather - it basically tells you which days ideal for hiking, fishing, etc.

It's the kind of feature that ends up below the cut line because you don't know whether anyone will use it. Well, I just did.

The subtle ad integration in the background is also super sleek.

[Devika @dev1ka]

Honest work

Walking home from honest work,
Past the buildings, same old smirk.
Golden hour, a final flash,
The sky's a bruised and purple slash.

The birds are singing their last sound,
Before they hit the sleepy ground.
There stands the bridge I know so well,
The same view that I see from my working cell. 

It carries weight and souls of many,
Someone hustling to make a penny.
A parent running to their kid's embrace,
Another starting a midnight pace.

And I always thought I would walk this street,
A slow, familiar, daily beat.
But something shifted, soft and deep,
A promise the city could not keep.

The perfect sky of September's blush,
It is not the same, in this sudden hush.
Feels like it is the final mile,
Like my last, tired, goodbye smile.

Because a literal tariff is on my dreams,
Taking me apart at the seams.
And that is not a bill I am going to pay,
Not for all the honest work in the world today.