Steve Yegge on AI adoption at Google
BlogSimon WillisonApr 13, 2026
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Google insider claims 60% of engineers still on basic chat tools, 20% agentic power users — the same adoption curve as John Deere. Demis Hassabis publicly rebutted. Captures the messy middle of AI adoption even at frontier labs.
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Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog > I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. > The TL;DR is…
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