alt Hacker NewsIt's tragic to see, and they already made this very same mistake with Gemini 2.5.
They made their model so hard for people to drop into workflows, that people just... didn't.
Lack of adoption caused them to lose out on usage-based training data needed to smooth out their model's rough edges and progress the frontier.
I have said this before here, but. I don't think they care.
Google gains very little by having us use their models for coding. It doesn't help them in their core mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful ^W^W^W^W^W^W[and turn it into ad revenue]"), nor would it be anything close to substantial revenue compared to the ads revenue firehose they already have.
They will push AI in a direction that serves their existing goals and service the coding agent model only as is necessary.