Hold the pantheon lightly.

Today is Google I/O 2026 and I caught myself feeling about it the way I felt about Christmas morning as a kid.

Will there be something cool? A nice present? Or disappointment?

In my mind seeing someone somewhere already drafting a breakup text to ChatGPT.

It’s not me. It’s you. Sundar just dropped better benchmarks.

This will happen every month. Maybe all year. Maybe forever now.

How should we deal with that?

My take… there’s an atheist version. Refuse the whole thing, sit it out and see what happens.

There’s the monogamist version. I see it everywhere on Twitter, in YouTube comments. People trashing each other, defending their model like they’re defending their football team.

I don’t get either of them.

I keep landing on a third option.

Be Hindu about it.

Many gods. Different jobs. You don’t pray to the same one for everything.

The altar this week.

• Ganesha removes obstacles. Opus 4.7 when planning and coding should just work.
• Saraswati handles wisdom. GPT 5.5 as second pair of eyes, catching the thing I missed or coming to the rescue when a bug is gnarly and won’t reveal itself.
• Lakshmi makes some stuff beautiful. Nano Banana 2 yesterday, whatever ChatGPT’s new image gen is by Thursday. Or switch per subject. People, nature, illustration each get their own god.

Just where I’m praying this week. Probably different next.

Now that I think about it maybe even Hinduism might be too small.

Gods get demoted. Zeus 3.0 walks into the pantheon next Tuesday and Ganesha is suddenly looking for work. Saraswati gets replaced by some open-source halfgod from a lab nobody had heard of a month ago. Cool. Bow to the new ones. Light the new candle.

A whole new religion might drop too.

Some framework I can’t even picture yet, where “picking a model” sounds as quaint as picking a fax provider.

If that happens, I’m in. Convert. Move on.

The frame has to be as fluid as the thing it’s framing. Otherwise the frame breaks first.

You have a favorite religion right now?