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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by lukan on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:31AM (#50453197)
"Will the AI work better because it was "pointed" by a Google SWE?"

Usually yes? (vs pointed by a random vibe coder)

Also the more interesting bit to me here is, that you do not find the reference on the page at all, that the person works for google at all (I only found it mentioned in his X account). With the headline I initially thought this was a official google research project, but the blog reads like a personal project.

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by glimshe on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:41AM (#50453302)
Replace "Google SWE" by "Competent Engineer" in the title and you'll see how silly it sounds to include this kind of information.
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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by lukan on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:54AM (#50453454)
Sure, it would be more meaningful to replace with "AI researcher working for google".
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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by shawabawa3 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:55AM (#50453464)
they don't mention what model they used, it's potentially relevant because they could have used an internal google only model
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