Dev rants: Google's gated model releases are training users to hate them
ricklamers · x · 2026-11-01
ricklamers criticizes Google's release playbook: announcing models with SOTA claims, giving early access only to an inner circle, then leaving everyone else waiting for weeks — a pattern he says is conditioning the community to find Google launches annoying. Tagged #carbongate.
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