Application Modernization Customer Engineer at @Google. Coffee, video games, and @Orangetheory fanatic. Views on here are my own.
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2011
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I handwrite a lot of notes and draw diagrams. As a visual learner, I recently plugged a diagram of UCP sessions into @NanoBanana, and the results were flawless. This is a game-changer for walking customers through my hard-to-read diagrams.
I cannot stress enough how well done this AI Agent ADK, MCP, and A2A tutorial is: codelabs.developers.google.c…
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Announcing the general availability of our Conversational Commerce agent!
Now, you can engage shoppers in natural, human-like conversations to deliver relevant results and recommendations.
Companies like Albertsons Cos. are already seeing an impact → goo.gle/4pih9Vq
A few days ago, I tried Google's internal Agentspace instance, and I can safely say THIS is useful. I've switched from using Gemini directly. I've noticed responses are much more actionable and more likely to directly answer questions with supporting internal bugs/docs/code/etc.
Gemini Code Assist with Agents now has a "Yolo mode" 😂 cloud.google.com/gemini/docs…
jules.google feels like more of a glimpse into the future of writing code than copy/paste from an AI chatbot.
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We’re releasing an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O edition) to make it even better at coding. 🚀
You can build richer web apps, games, simulations and more - all with one prompt.
In @GeminiApp, here's how it transformed images of nature into code to represent unique patterns 🌱
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What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!  Special thanks to @TheCodeOfJoel for creating and running the livestream, and to everyone who cheered Gem on along the way.
The price-performance gap between Google and OpenAI is widening dramatically as the Gen AI leaderboard leapfrogging bonanza continues.
Learning from 25 years of Urs, Parthasarathy, and team tackling the crazy challenges that come with "infinitely" scaling computing is the definition of standing on the shoulders of giants. Make sure to check out the in-depth paper they published. cloud.google.com/transform/3…
I love Google's ruthless democratization of its tech, even in situations where, at first glance, it doesn't appear to make a lot of business sense. Gemini models in Copilot is a huge deal for getting Google's models in the hands of as many devs as possible cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
Just to be sure, @BusinessInsider are your analysts considering that those four companies operate cloud services that pass NVIDIA's GPUs through to much more than four companies?
The Pixel 9 is the first Google phone where I've felt like Google is truly serious about getting into the devices market. The build quality is excellent, navigating is iPhone-level smooth, way less day one bugs than previous phones, and the AI features are extremely useful.
Excited for the #Pixel9 event! I carry both iPhone (my iMessage box) & Pixel daily. Pixel AI features have made phones interesting again after years of incremental iOS upgrades. Continuous feature releases make it a more exciting device to own. Annual iOS feature dumps feel old🦖
Allocating a static external IP address to Vertex AI Pipelines and Managed Notebooks is not as simple as I had thought. In case someone finds themselves in this extremely niche situation, I've written up a tutorial: medium.com/@willisc718/assig…
Now this... this is what I've been waiting for... @supermemory allows you to enter miscellaneous memories and links and acts as a second brain when you want to recall something.
🧵Finally made the leap of faith from a MacBook to a Chromebook at work and so far it's been MOSTLY positive. Google has made remote dev more convenient than local dev. Cloud Workstations cover 90% of use cases and VS Code Remote SSH to a Debian VM covers the rest.
Many little programs I used to bulk install on my Mac with a Homebrew script are just baked into ChromeOS (e.g. paste history). If you have everything in Google, the meta key is insanely useful when searching for just about anything. Chrome profile switching feels more fluid.