Happy long weekend! I’ve been in a good writing mood recently, so I’m back again. This time I have a short-ish piece, reviewing Google’s various attempts to integrate Gemini into its products, from a long-time Android user. (tl;dr It is… not good.) My point being: there’s still lots of room for great, AI-enabled products. Whether they come from Google (or Apple) or not remains to be seen.

Feel free to give it a read on my blog, here. And let me know what you think! (I’d normally copy it here, but there are a lot of screenshots, so I think it’s best viewed on my website.)

That being said, I don’t want to leave you empty handed. As a fun snippet, I might’ve stumbled across Google’s system prompt for it’s Google Messages assistant thing?

Happy Saturday. As life would have it, I’m graduating very soon. And I have the privilege of giving of speech!

I was stumped on what to say for a while, but have finally put pen to paper. I’d love to share the speech, and some context around it, with all of you. (If you’d prefer, this piece is also available on my blog.)

Enjoy.