alt Hacker NewsThis should be a warning to anyone running GCP. They suspend accounts left right and centre without even thinking about what they're doing. It seems like they use Gemini 3.1 Pro to run their production decisions.
TK has a history of absolutely destroying the culture of the place like in OCI and has done something similar in GCP from what I've heard. GCP and Google are completely different entities with how they work. Don't expect Google quality from the name. It's just like those old brands which now have cheap licensed products like Nokia (An exaggeration I know but not far from truth).
Not only that they are known to shut off their services randomly giving you like 6 months to migrate. They have lots of engineers not doing anything, so they put them on migrating internal users off those services, most of their clients don't. There was a brilliant article on this by an ex-GCP employee that I can't find right now.
Avoid GCP like plague if you are serious about your business.
Edit: Gemini (unironically) found the article on this, a very good read: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
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And this is Railway, a big enough name to top the HN main page and presumably find someone from Google to intervene at some point. I would have zero recourse if it was some little product that I built.
> Don't expect Google quality from the name.
It sounds exactly like what I have experienced in terms of Google quality over the decades.
GCP was never known for their support and deprecation of services was always a huge risk. Its very sad because its actually a quality product. They should easily be the number 2 provider. Azure is extremely unreliable and their documentation is subpar. GCP being in 3rd place is more of their doing.
All google products work like this. Should never be used for anything critical.
> Don't expect Google quality
Google has an extremely poor reputation. Why are you thinking differently to that?
Hasn't theGoog acted this way of quick to suspend accounts well before Gemini? I like to bash on LLMs as much as the next guy, but this seems very much like the memory of a gold fish. Or, you are just too young to remember pre-LLMs???
This feels like google applying the same anti-spam mindset everywhere: detect risk, ban first, ask questions later.
> It seems like they use Gemini 3.1 Pro to run their production decisions.
They said they are already using Gemini 3.5 Pro internally.
At least from the outside TK seems to be doing well given GCP's growth. My completely uninformed assessment is that he stepped in as the disciplined adult in the room to override Google's otherwise lackadaisical approach to enterprise. (Clearly still some ways to go, as this incident shows.) Now, that may have created a culture that is at odds with the rest of Google, but it was probably required to become a "serious" enterprise org.
That said, did OCI, being an Oracle division, have a culture worth destroying? On the other hand, I could see TK importing that culture into Google...