Update: I have a new job and I’m very excited about it. I am (re)joining Google as the VP of Product for Google Chrome! Several of my colleagues from Relay.app are joining the team as well :). Let me quickly explain why we’re so excited to work on Chrome. I’ve spent my whole career doing one thing: building tools that help people get more done with AI, without sacrificing their personal creativity or insights. And joining the Chrome team is an ideal opportunity to bring those experiences to many, many more people. Here’s why: 1. It’s the primary workspace for productivity. Like many people, I have my Chrome browser open all day, every day. It’s personalized to exactly what I want, and I’ve got tabs open for all of my most important tools and tasks. 2. It’s an open platform for the entire web. Chrome works with every app and every site, so I can get anything done (no need to worry about what APIs / MCP servers exist). 3. It’s the perfect place to collaborate with agents. So much of my work with AI involves passing the baton back and forth until I’m happy with the output, and in Chrome I can do that right where the app is already open. We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon. In the meantime, please send me any feedback, ideas, and bug reports!

If you're looking for a better way to study this school year, we have some awesome new features launching in Chrome to make learning easier. My personal favorite is that Gemini in Chrome can now generate interactive quizzes from any tab(s) you have open. So if you have an article open in one tab, and your own notes in another, you can ask Gemini to generate a custom set of questions for you. Just hit “Ask Gemini” in the top right and ask for a quiz about your current tab(s). This is rolling out now, and I'm excited to hear your feedback!

I learned a ton from meeting with customers and partners today at our Enterprise summit. They have an exciting, but very difficult job! They need to sift through the endless sea of AI tools to figure out what's actually useful, and teach their organizations to use them. AND do this (1) in a very fast-moving environment, (2) while upholding rigorous security. Things like redacting sensitive information and blocking unapproved file downloads may not be the most exciting AI innovations that come to your mind, but those got the biggest applause of the keynote.

For my first post as the new product lead for @googlechrome, I thought it would be fun to share my actual setup and how I work in Chrome. I use vertical tabs and tab groups to keep everything organized. I have some tab groups for evergreen work (e.g. team management) and some for ephemeral projects (e.g. a big presentation). I color code evergreen work as…. green. My most important projects are red, and other tasks are yellow or orange. If you haven’t used vertical tabs or tab groups yet, give them a try and send me some feedback!

very cool lessons about how to keep a huge codebase safe with the latest tools

Is Opus 4.7 dumber and worse at calling tools? Nope, but it interprets prompts much more literally, and if there's a flaw, it will punish you. One could consider the lack of common sense as regression, but it's by design and can be steered. For every release: Read the notes!

This is the era of the one-person marketing team. Launch dozens of high-performing landing pages from Claude and Clay. Using @tryflint’s MCP and API.

Should I leave my stable job to start a company? When Block lays off nearly half its workforce and the FAANGs are all doing rolling layoffs you might start wondering: is it possible that a 10-person, profitable startup could turn out to be *more* secure? On today’s Startup Dad I talked with @jebank about leaving Google when his daughter was 6 months old to start @relay. I thought that sounded risky; Jacob didn’t. After talking to him I’m inclined to agree. Ask yourself these three questions: -> Can you afford 2x the runway you think you need? -> Will this role actually grow your skills, or just your salary? -> Do you control your time, or does your calendar control you? For him the conclusion was: start a company. Then he learned through the process that small teams are actually *better* for parents than big companies. His 10-person team has zero standing meetings. Everyone's senior. Everyone's a parent. Work happens async (mostly). Our conversation was filled with other amazing nuggets: his concept of “double dipping” for turning chores into quality time with your kids, how to bring your kids into your work problems to show them your world, and his “imagine if I did that” framework for handling tantrums. Listen or watch our full conversation on Startup Dad; you’ll find it on Youtube and everywhere you get your podcasts.

Workflows are still better than agents for 99% of use cases

@relay is best of both worlds! Pleasure to use vs zapier

Partial list of companies that have been declared "toast": NVIDIA Google Microsoft OpenAI Anthropic Perplexity Cursor Salesforce ServiceNow Adobe Zapier Cognition this is silly, can we stop. we're still at the very beginning of the game and there's a lot of work to do

Working with AI (prompting, vibe coding, building AI agents) is now the most important skill for every job seeker. And @linkedin just rolled out a really cool way to show off your expertise. Here's how it works: 1) You use a product like @descript for video editing, @Lovable / @Replit for vibe coding, or @relay for AI agent building. 2) Once you hit a certain level of proficiency, you'll get a notification that you've reach a new skill level with a button to share on LinkedIn. 3) As your skills improve, your certification will automatically update, so future employers can be confident in your skills! Read more about it in Techcrunch and on Engadget (and check out the cool hero image of Relay.app too 😁 )

Surprised not many people know about @relay yet It's basically a non-technical Zapier, with much better AI to build the workflows, and it allows a human-in-the-loop approval process I just one shotted flow where someone says "pr-review [link] in Slack and it uses my Github account to automatically comment "cursor review" so Bugbot can be triggered without anyone asking me Many many more examples like this

The Meta AI integration into WhatsApp is such a perfect example of how NOT to incorporate AI into products. They jammed in a huge button, but it has no clear use case AND blocks a critical button for scrolling to the bottom of conversations.