AI BriefingGoogle AI Debate
Key point
Steve Yegge's criticism of Google's AI adoption was directly rebutted by people inside Google.
Details
Steve Yegge claimed that Google's AI adoption is lagging behind expectations, arguing that internal usage is at John Deere levels. He also suggested that a similar curve exists across the industry, with 20% agentic power users, 20% refusers, and 60% regular chat tool users.
In response, Addy Osmani pushed back, saying that inside Google, over 40,000 SWEs weekly are using agentic coding, and that tools like antigravity, geminicli, custom models, skills, CLI, MCP, orchestrator, agent loop, and virtual SWE team are actually being used in real work.
Demis Hassabis also strongly denied the claim, calling it "completely wrong clickbait." Simon Willison summarized this debate in a note dated April 13, 2026.
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