Skills Shifting: Judgment Over Raw Technicality

Yossi Matias has been inside Google Research for 20 years. He built Autocomplete, Google Trends, and Google Duplex before most people knew what a large language model was. His argument isn't that AI is coming. It's that we already passed the inflection point and most of us didn't notice because we adapted. In this conversation: 6 things changing how we work right now, why one person can now do the work of three, which skills Google actually hires for in 2026, and what the flood prediction system covering 2 billion people tells us about what's possible next.

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