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Schillace: AI tooling will expand engineering ambitions rather than shrink team sizes
“Programmers are definitely going to get more effective. We're going to get more agentic programming tools. So you're going to get higher and higher leverage, but I don't think it's going to make the team smaller. I think it's just going to make the ambitions b…”
Schillace: AI will make creating pixels free, radically altering software applications
“I have the suspicion that the nature of applications is going to change radically in the next five to 10 years. And so I think, you know, this idea that just in the same way that the internet made the distribution of information essentially free, AI, generativ…”
Schillace: In five years, software you cannot converse with will feel broken
“I think we're gonna feel the same way about intention and interactivity in our products very soon. Like, if I can't tell something what my intent is and have it configure itself in an intelligent way, have it converse with me, whether that's a device or a piec…”
Schillace: Durable AI value will accrue to trusted personal data holders
“So that's kind of where that durable value will wind up being, I think, over time. It's kind of the holders of the data and the companies that we can trust to, you know, hold that data and trust to give us the right answers are probably where their value is.”
Schillace: Physicians paired with AI diagnostic tools perform worse than AI alone
“There's a study I saw a while ago that compared like an AI based system, AI only physician only and AI plus physician An AI plus physician did worse than AI only. The physician kind of dragged the AI down because they didn't trust it.”
Schillace: Giving multi-agent AI systems shared whiteboard memory makes them smarter
“We were trying to get multiple versions of them working together, like multi-agents working together, and we gave them whiteboard Working memory, like as a shared working memory thing to fix this problem, and that turns out to make them much smarter.”
Schillace: Google Docs won market share, but Microsoft kept the money
“In retrospect, they did fine. Like, we took a bunch of market share, but they kept all the money, basically. So, you know, we being Google, like, you know, so, like, they survived it. Like, you know, they survived. They did a good job surviving the challenge. …”
Schillace: Google Workspace and Microsoft Office are reaching market stasis
“And I think it's hard for either one company to fully become what the other one is and take, take the whole market. So I think we're getting close to stasis on this actually.”
Schillace: Google executives wanted to kill Google Docs despite millions of users
“Like in the early days, like we had like, I don't know, a couple million users, five million users. And there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop. And like, we shouldn't be doing it.”
Schillace: Writely co-founders initially rejected building Google Docs in browsers
“When I had the idea for Rightly, like, my two co-founders, who were both deep domain experts in both app building and word processors, were like, the browser's never going to support this. It's a bad idea. Let's not do this.”
Schillace: Google Docs collaboration began as an accident before locking was built
“And like, the fact that you could collaborate on them was kind of an accident. Like, they're just like these things on the server. We hadn't built the thing. That would lock somebody out yet. So there was just like, here's a document, like you can edit these t…”
Schillace: Google treated candidate controversy and single interview vetoes as positive signals
“I interviewed Dave Bezris. I interviewed him when he came in and I asked him that question and his response was, I don't do math next question. And so I failed him. I was the veto and they have this policy where we're friends now, like, They have this policy w…”
Schillace: Over one billion people use Google Docs today
“There's like more than a billion people use gdocs today.”
Schillace: Microsoft cloud tools must preserve desktop compatibility, unlike Google Docs
“They're trying to keep the cloud very strongly competitive roundtrip, or very strongly compatible, you know, roundtrip compatible with the desktop. That's a design point Google does not care about, but Microsoft does care about.”
Schillace: Google spends billions annually on Google Maps
“Google spends billions of dollars a year on maps.”
Schillace: Writely originally ran on C# on three rented Windows servers
“We started off, in, in C Sharp, which is little known, in, you know, our own, there's, like, pre-cloud, so we, like, had three file servers that we rented that were Windows machines in a data center in Texas with a sysadmin in the Philippines running them. So …”
Schillace: Writely migrated onto Google infrastructure during an unnoticed 8-hour window
“When we migrated in to Google, we were very sneaky about it. And we like put the site into quote maintenance mode for eight hours on a Sunday where everything was just read only. And then we migrated all the data and moved everything and brought the new system…”
Schillace: Writely initially let users edit documents without an account or email
“When we did rightly at the beginning, we didn't even ask for an email address because it was such a novel thing. We didn't want any friction at all in the onboarding process. So you could just come in and make a document and start using it without telling us a…”
Schillace: I sold Writely and 200 pounds of blood sausage to Google
“Technically, because I was an investor in that company, I sold both the company rightly and is 200 pounds of blood sausage to Google, which I think is a unique accomplishment.”