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2020

Lessons from the PG&E outage

At Waymo, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver. We know trust is built through consistent behavior over time—earned through every mile we drive and every interaction we have with the community. This past Saturday, as a widespread PG&E outage cut power to nearly one-third of San Francisco, our service…

2033

LLMs understand nullability

The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can write code in many domains, to huge excitement: many claim to be using these models to write entire web servers and apps from scratch. These tools have opened up programming to a whole new class of people who consider…