Google is in trouble

During the latest Google I/O event, the company announced many products related to artificial intelligence—something that seems to be the norm in 2026. However, it appears that the search giant is nowhere near competing with OpenAI and Anthropic.

90% of the products they launched do not appear to be ready for the market nor have they been tested sufficiently. Even so, they had no choice but to take a leap of faith. But the internet is unforgiving, especially toward the big players. And Google has been one of the companies committed to the quality of the products it offers—until now.

If we break down the product rollout at this event, we find two main categories: standard users who use cloud-based products and developers.

For the standard user who uses Google’s cloud-based products, there don’t seem to be too many issues, since generally no one complains about Gmail or Google Docs, but the problem begins when we start integrating Artificial Intelligence into those products—or rather, when it isn’t integrated correctly.

It's so confusing!

Let’s start with the state-of-the-art model: Gemini 3.5 Flash doesn’t seem to hit the mark or compete with the state-of-the-art models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and if we evaluate it carefully, we can conclude that it doesn’t even come close to them.

Second, apps with confusing names and similar features that give off the vibe of “It’s not ready yet, but here it is… Use it.” “Flow,” “Pics,” “Photos,” “Veo,” “Omni,” “AntiGravity,” “Sparks,” etc. Flow is for creating videos; I have it. And Omni creates videos. Google Photos—I have it. Google Pics, for creating images—I don’t get it.

Let’s move on to the developer tools. AntiGravity used to be the AI-powered code editor; it’s no longer just an editor—now it’s a sort of agent orchestrator, which wouldn’t be bad if it didn’t work so poorly from the start. Many users are reporting multiple glitches in the graphical interface and are clamoring to go back to the previous version.

The Gemini CLI simply doesn’t work:

1. Scrolling breaks easily.
2. The macOS window seems to suffer from traffic light syndrome.
3. Unfinished interface.

None of this would matter much if the product had been developed by an average developer or a small development team, but keep in mind that we’re talking about Google—a company with a market capitalization of $4.663 trillion.