That is not quite the right word. For Python, the headcount was moved from the Bay Area (the most expensive place in the world to hire software engineers) to Munich (the most expensive place in Germany to hire SWEs.), for cost saving reasons.
Most of the engineers making most of the tools being praised in this thread are in Germany, so I don't think that generalization quite holds.
Even if the best SWEs are better in the Bay area, there's also a lot more competition for them, so Google in Germany might be able to get top 1% there (and in neighboring countries) but Google in the Bay Area is probably having a tough time getting even top 10%.
You're not missing much -- Claude is a better model for coding. That's what basically everyone at Google DeepMind uses and what I expect most other Googlers would choose to use IF they had access:
I am Not a googler, just a very good google user but hope those Googlers using them third party service providers' (other than Google) LLMs read this (manually critically thinking, not skimming via a LLM layer, losing structural human nuance) :
I've been coding professionally in Python for about twenty years (alongside, at different times, a dozen or so other languages).
I find that Claude can write great modern Python more or less out of the box, with minimal style guidance from me. I do have to nudge it from time to time to not do silly things, but overall it's really rather good.
I am a bit disappointed by New Scientist's standard of reporting here.
"Has been shockingly overlooked by all but a handful of scholars since its discovery 125 years ago" -- really? I picked up the one popular book on the subject that I own. It was first published almost 25 years ago and has an entire chapter on proto-Elamite, plus about a dozen mentions throughout the book.
Everything seems to have some sort of fake narrative these days to make it more "interesting". <old-man-yells-at-cloud/>
This is not to say that it isn't well run, but I think it would be fair to mention that Singapore is one of the most densely populated countries on Earth (#3 overall; #1 among countries with population >1 million.)
Separately, I am not totally sure just how widely deployed FTTH is in Switzerland. Here in Zürich it's everywhere, but zooming in on some rural place on init7's map tells quite a different story (perhaps not surprisingly).
I was wondering the same thing. The data comes from Eurostat, and Eurostat does generally cover Switzerland. There's even a row in the original table[1] but for some reason it's blank.
https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/pdfs/electrisense.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266461208_Multimedi...
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/9/2485
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