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For a long time, these four quadrants have been pretty distinct, because search and recommendations, while they occupy opposite ends of the same spectrum conceptually, have different tooling and architectures, and machine learning goals. These are four very hard design principles to square, because now, with open-ended models, we end up migrating all our use-cases to the center space. And, because I’ve been conditioned by 15 years of past internet history to be in those quadrants, I’m annoyed by being pushed to the middle everywhere across all interfaces.

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