“Developer loyalty is at zero right now,” Richard Seroter, Google Cloud’s Senior Director and Chief Evangelist, told The New Stack‘s Frederic Lardinois in a frank interview at the Google Cloud Next conference last week. For a company that offers many developer tools — and maybe too many — that’s a tough position to be in. But Seroter isn’t worried about it.
“Our job is that we should make it easy. If you want to build with AI or if you build AI apps, we should be excellent at both and be the best at both. We are not ceding anything. We will be the best at AI dev tools. We’re gonna get there — always. I mean, that’s everybody’s goal. We’re gonna keep pushing there,” Seroter said.
But Google is also pragmatic there. Even if a developer isn’t using Google’s developer tools, it still wants to be the platform where the code runs.
Google Cloud's Chief Evangelist Richard Seroter discusses developer loyalty, AI dev tools competition with AWS and Azure, and Google's platform strategy.
"Developer loyalty is at zero right now," Richard Seroter, Google Cloud's Senior Director and Chief Evangelist, told The New Stack in a frank interview at the Google Cloud Next conference last week. For a company that offers many developer tools — and maybe too many — that's a tough position to be in. But Seroter...
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