Rose Yao

VP Product, Search @Google. Previously Nest, Meta, startups. Mom of 2 (almost 3) in SF. Currently: on leave + building for fun

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Image gen fails always make me laugh. Built a 10-scene storybook for my kids yesterday to prep for baby3.

Words really matter. "Dress" → biped unicorn in a bathrobe. "Shawl draped over the back" → horse.

Refs anchor look. Constraints anchor the rest.

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

This week's build: https://t.co/A140AZdnhQ

A just-in-time product to help track baby3 sleep and feeds for the first few months.

An AI coach that predicts the next nap/feed and answers late-night questions. Supports English and Chinese — our night nurse is Chinese.

Any other parents in the same boat, feel free to play. Let's see how it actually works with baby #3!

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Tested AI design tools this week: Stitch and Claude. Same prompt.
Stitch made a product.
Claude made a magazine spread.

Both have a house style. Claude's just happens to look like Claude.

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Raw original painting :)

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Controversial AI use case: helping humans become better artists.

I paint for fun and this week I started using AI as an art teacher

Not to generate paintings but to help me understand:
• what to tweak
• what to leave alone
• where the eye gets stuck
• whether I’m overworking a piece

Here’s an example from a study I did tonight, it didn’t just critique the painting — it explained and visualized why certain edits improved the composition.

Maybe the future isn’t replacing creativity but helping more humans create and learn - with thoughtful personal tutoring on demand.

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

So excited to watch team Google and especially team search! Go Liz, @VidsSrinivasan, and @rmstein.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

We’re ready, are you?

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Current favorite: a dragon world where each dragon has a special power tied to a physics concept.

Water, friction, gravity, light.

I’d like to say they’re learning science.

Mostly they just think the rainbow dragon is really pretty.

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Two weeks ago I started leave for baby #3 (aka AGI v3).

And I want to do something I haven’t done since college: build for fun.

I originally went into product for two reasons:

1) I loved bringing people and ideas together and making them real.
2) My friends were much better engineers than me.

Twenty years later, that gap has narrowed — not because I’m a better engineer, but because the tools are.

It’s now faster to build something than to write a PRD or mock it up in Figma.

That means the ideas I’ve had for my kids and our family don’t have to stay in my head anymore.

So each week (assuming AGI v3 doesn’t consume all available compute), I’ll share something I built during leave.

Starting with:

🎮 https://t.co/wFVS82Uvcg
games for my kids featuring dinosaurs, ponies, pirates, and dragons and a little bit of reading, math, and physics.

I’ve spent most of my career building for billions of users.
It’s been surprisingly joyful to build for five.

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Definitely noticed a consistent desire to talk me down… it’s like it’s trying to save tokens?

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Why is Claude always trying to reduce scope and calling me “overly ambitious”? Am I being PMed?

[Nick Fox @thefox]

Just shipped AI-powered key moments in Google Finance so you can:
+Understand major price swings in stock charts (1 month+ view) 📈
+Jump to key moments in corporate earnings calls 🎧

Small team built these features from the ground up (and fast) using @Antigravity, check em out

https://t.co/nXmtHBpfWp

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

It’s been a long journey from a simple machine learning experiment to an AI tool used by 1 billion people. 📈

To celebrate 20 years, we’ve rounded up 20 fun facts and tips—including some of the biggest milestones in breaking language barriers: https://t.co/Ct8EpUISGw

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

Happy 20th anniversary to Google Translate. I moved to the US at 10, and English was a struggle. I knew the words, but the pronunciation? That was a different story. 😅

Today we’re celebrating Translate's 20th anniversary with the feature I wish I had back then: Pronunciation Practice! 🗣️ Now rolling out on Android in the US & India in English, Spanish and Hindi.

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

3/ 🗺️ Canvas in AI Mode for help building and refining your travel itinerary.

To get started, just head to AI Mode, select the Canvas tool from the (+) and describe your ideal trip. AI Mode will put together a fully thought-out plan including flights and hotels, along with recommendations that are actually doable and fit with your criteria and budget.

You can ask follow-ups, tweak things you want to change, and pick up where you left off any time from your AI Mode history–it’ll save all your progress automatically!

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

I am so ready for summer :)🌴 . . Here are 3 features I've been using to help plan my summer. 1/ To help you save $$, today we launched hotel price tracking on Search! Use the new tracking toggle to get an email if prices drop for your dream hotel. Available now, globally 📷🧵

[Rose Yao @dozenrose]

2/ 🛍️ Agentic calling in AI Mode for finding last-minute travel gear.

When you just need that *one thing* before you leave but don’t know who’s got it in stock, you can ask AI Mode to save you the stress. Just search for what you need “near me” and Google AI will call local stores directly to get the details you need.