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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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… Read More »Google AI CEO\u2019s message to engineer whose Googler buddy said Google is average at AI adoption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":103611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}