This is XML without the < and >

Yeah, why not go directly the route of custom HTML elements in Markdown anyway, since HTML inside Markdown is valid?

My guess is parsability. It’s easier to look for sentinel ``` blocks as opposed to building an HTML processor. An XML processor would have been easier, but people like Markdown. So, here we are.

At least, that would’ve my rationale.

Actually the opposite: they came into their prime after the acquisition. Probably not due to Salesforce, but still.

Are you pulling in any big assets / artifacts?

Refreshing to see an acquisition (acquihire?) that just plainly says they were not able to monetize.

100% the most original and truly scary hard SciFi from the last year.

I just fed the above into Claude Code and it one-shotted this in 5 minutes. Already doing $3B ARR after lunch.

Of course! This is actually very straightforward and easy, what you need is just:

- One MongoDB collection (`government_stuff`) to store employees, rodents, cardiac arrest surgeries and other items as JSON

- Core `/handler` API that forwards all requests to ChatGPT, figuring out if you're tracking a rodent or processing payroll

- AI Vision to analyze CCTV feeds for rodents, monitors employee productivity and verify hospital equipment status

- Blockchain layer for transparency (every rodent sighting minted as NFT).

Estimated timeline: 2 weeks, 1 junior developer. Cost: ~$10k including token credits. Should I start implementing the main.js?

The jab at NoSQL made me snort-laugh, well done. You forgot to mention the 25 thousand npm dependencies.

Jules, Vertex...

After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity!

edit: Also Jules...

snark off:

I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense.

It does?

Google AI studio is their developer dashboard.

Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock.

Google Gemini Chat is their ChatGPT app for normies.

Google Antigravity is their Cursor equivalent.

I agree what you’ve listed makes sense as a product portfolio.

But AI Studio is getting vibe coding tools. AI Studio also has a API that competes with Vertex. They have IDE plugins for existing IDEs to expose Chat, Agents, etc. They also have Gemini CLI for when those don’t work. There is also Firebase Studio, a browser based IDE for vibe coding. Jules, a browser based code agent orchestration tool. Opal, a node-based tool to build AI… things? Stich, a tool to build UIs. Colab with AI for a different type of coding. Notebook LM for AI research (many features now available in Gemini App). AI Overviews and AI mode in search, which now feature a generic chat interface.

Thats just new stuff, and not including all the existing products (Gmail, Home) that have Gemini added.

This is the benefit of a big company vs startups. They can build out a product for every type of user and every user journey, at once.

Don't forget Gemini CLI

In another 2 years we'll probably be back to just "Google" as digital agent that can do any research, creative, or coding task you can imagine.

I concede.

> Google Vertex is their equivalent of Amazon Bedrock

Well, that clears that up.

In "real world" you don't use OpenAI or Anthropic API directly—you are forced to use AWS, GCP, or Azure. Each of these has its own service for running LLMs, which is conceptually the same as using OpenAI or Anthropic API directly, but with much worse DX. For AWS it's called Bedrock, for GCP—Vertex, and for Azure it's AI Foundry I believe. They also may offer complementary features like prompt management, evals, etc, but from what I've seen so far it's all crap.

And In practice, when I needed to use one of their models for a small project, it turned out that the only sane way is to go via OpenRouter…

Also gemini-cli (terrible)

Google ADK (agent development kit, awesome)

The also launched a coding agent Jules: https://jules.google/

Jules is the first and only one to add a full API, which I've found very beneficial. It lets you integrate agentic coding features into web apps quite nicely. (In theory you could always hack your own thing together with Claude Code or Codex to achieve a similar effect but a cloud agent with an API saves a lot of effort.)

Google ADK is real nice and gives you an API as well (also web browser and terminal prompt)

Jules is nifty. Weirdly heavy on the browser CPU.

Wasn't there something called Bard at some point?

Bard is the old name of Gemini

you forgot jules

Everybody forgets Jules.

Interesting that this is now a venture-scale company, according to YC.

Startups aren't supposed to be "venture scale" when they launch. (I don't know what "venture scale" means, but it sounds big.) They're supposed to make something that at least a few people want, and then iterate.

just keep in mind you weren't in the pitch room. I'm old enough now to realize that not everything we see in public is the full story.

It may be all a pipe dream and not pan out, but I bet they pitched a path to more broader optionality. That's all you really need, momentum and optionality.

Right? There are at least 3 years that I don't get impressed by any Launch HN.

Saw it on Twitter and was interested. But from the video and demos I immediately did not understand why Notebooks and Notes are two tabs? In my mind, a Note is IN a Notebook, not some separate adjacent item...

Yes agree, the Notebook / homepage UX still needs work.

We recently introduced a sidebar (after the video was made) which has them organized as you mention.