Google AI CEO’s message to engineer whose Googler buddy said Google is average at AI adoption

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis fired back at software engineer Steve Yegge after a viral post claimed Google’s internal AI adoption was no better than John Deere’s. Yegge, citing a conversation with a longtime Google tech director, argued a hiring freeze and reluctance to use Claude Code had left the company stuck. Google’s Addy Osmani countered with numbers: 40,000 engineers doing agentic coding weekly.