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“Before we did the IO announcement in 23, we'd already done a lot of studies. And one of the first things that I realized was the first thing anybody ever typed was summarize the thing, right? Summarize the document. And it was like half like a test and half ju…”

“I mean, we have like a really, really good like character designer on our team.”

“Humor is contextual also, like super contextual is what we're realizing. So we're not prompting for humor, but we're prompting for maybe a lot of other things that are bringing out that humor.”

“Notebook.ln can handle up to 50 sources, 500,000 words each, like you're not going to be able to jam all of that into like the context window.”

“We had this idea that you could highlight the text in your source passage, and then you could transform it. And nobody was really using it. And it was like a very complicated piece of our architecture, and it's very hard to continue supporting it in the contex…”

“We didn't actually start out thinking this would live in notebook, right? Like notebook was sort of, we, Built this demo out independently, tried out like a few different sort of sources that the main idea was like go from some sort of sources and transform it…”

“I think you just have to be really opinionated. I think that sometimes if you are, your intuition is just sharper and you can move a lot faster on the product because it's like, if you hold that bar high, right? Like if you think about like the iterative cycle…”

“We have some early signal that says it's a really good hook. But people stay for the other features.”

“Autonomous, you know, means, like, it has its own computer, right? So for Jules, it's, you know, the end. Yeah, exactly. So tons of agents that run, you know, locally or in your workspace with you while you're coding but if you want something that's going to r…”

“So we have the dual CLI we launched a couple of weeks ago, which lets you interact with it. By the time this podcast comes out, we'll be in the integrated with the Gemini CLI.”

“I don't really Buy this, like, you know, that we're not gonna hire more software engineers story. I think, like, for a few reasons I mean, this is an example that, that often comes up, but is it, like, kind of the elasticity of the demand for software?”

“I think one of the things we've seen is the scaffolds get simpler and simpler over time as the models get better. And in some ways, this, the scaffolding is almost a crutch for things the model struggles with. For example, like, you know, really complicated su…”

“Jules is, yeah, partnering with GitHub for the new agent HQ stuff, which we're excited about.”

“With Jules, you can upload images now.”

“We store some data for a session, but it only lasts. We only store it for 30 days. And so after 30 days your session becomes locked. And when the first user starts first started hitting that, they were upset. We're like, there's no way anyone's gonna be using …”