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They can't even add "respect the user's preferred language" to the AI assist prompt in Google Search - I've reported it countless times. Turns out, looking up local places/names/etc, does not mean I speak that language. They can't seem to add light/dark support to Gmail despite prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature being present in browsers for at least 6 years). I have zero remaining faith in Google's ability to do anything.
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Google appears to be especially bad at this (looking at you, auto-dubbing YouTube) and countless others fail as well.

What is it though? Is it a harder problem than I think it is or is Conway's law getting the better of the G?


It probably reflects incentives within the company

Gemini answers me in Mandarin quite often. In case their is any wonder about me: I grew up in the US and my first language is English.

It anticipated the outcome of the Taiwan conflict. /S

Google doesn't hire people who actually enjoy doing maintenance.

In fact lately it seems like nobody hires for this.




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