Google has just announced a new product called Disco. This is essentially a Gemini-powered tool.

It's going to work inside of the browser. And it is for making web apps, like apps, from browser

tabs, things that you're doing. They want to turn like a task or something you're doing into an

app. Now, this is kind of like a crazy concept to me when I was thinking about it.

And the first thing, I'll go over examples and how this works, but the first thing I want to bring up here is I'm actually really excited. I feel like Google has finally gotten their mojo back. They definitely were caught slacking when chat GPT dropped. It felt like they were getting behind. They weren't, it didn't feel like they were quite up to par with a lot of the other AI innovation that was coming out. I felt like they had stifled AI because they were worried about their ads business for a long time. And all of the sudden, it feels like they finally seize their moment. They're coming out with all of these really crazy products. I love the fact that they are taking big shots right now, big swings on a ton of random stuff. It feels like they're basically throwing everything they can at the wall, seen what sticks, seeing what people likes. It feels a lot more like a, you know, like a startup where there's trying a lot of different things. They're okay if things fail. This is like one of those instances where I'm like curious to see if this is going to be popular, if it's going to fail. But you've seen them do this with a lot of different products. Some of them we don't hear much about anymore, but some things like Notebook LM seem to be, you know, really popular and you keep hearing about them into the future. So I feel like this quote-unquote disco product is one of those. Essentially how this works is, I'll give you an example, so like you might be studying for a test or something or you might be studying a specific topic. And this quote unquote, Gen tabs thing is going to all of a sudden have a pop-up that suggests you build a web app to visualize the information that you're studying. So you might be studying like, I don't know, the solar system, all the planets, might have a pop-up that says you have a demo on one of their sites where it's like, you know, like make a 3D model rendering of the whole solar system so you can like scroll around and look at what the solar system and the spacing of all the planets is in, you know, real life or whatever. So like it's a cool concept. To me, it just sounds like absolutely insane. But I think that we because it seems like, wow, that's so much compute, that's so much so much work just for like you know I want to like maybe visualize something but like did no one else build this entire you know 3d model am I the first one to do this do we need to have like 10,000 people building a 3D model of a solar system to look at I want to really reuse the code it feels like weirdly wasteful and I know that to me and I know this is probably coming from my background, which is in, you know, I've been working on software products for the last number of years. And for so long before AI came around, we were just doing it from scratch. This was in, you know, it took a very long time. These tools were like resources. They cost a lot of money to build.

And all of a sudden, we could just do them at the snap of a finger. And it's like you,

it's like single use plastic. It feels like you make it and you throw it away. So anyways,

I think it's just like such a fascinating concept. But I think it is the future of where we go

with this because essentially this code has become commoditized.

These AM models are so good at writing code that you can build any tool that you want very

quickly. So why not build it? I guess another example of this if you're trying to do something

less academic. Over on TechCrunch, they have some examples, which to be honest, I don't

love these examples because I feel like they're so overused, but they recommend it if you're trying to build like a meal plan and you had a whole bunch of tabs open of recipes.

It could all of a sudden make like a literally like an app that is software that has all of your meal plans and all of your recipes like built and you can click through them all.

Like and then I guess you could save this and come back to this, like, app that you have built.

I don't really know how useful that is.

I mean, it's like conceptually, I'm looking at like a visualization of what this tool would look

like.

It looks really cool, like this meal planner thing, but I just don't know how useful that

workflow actually is.

Here's another interesting one that I saw.

Google themselves on their big blog post, they put out about disco. They put out like an example

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