Quoting Steve Yegge

Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Teleport — Connect agents to your infra in seconds with Teleport Beams. Built-in identity. Zero secrets. Get early access The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% still using Cursor or equivalent chat tool. It turns out Google has this curve too. [...] There has been an industry-wide hiring freeze for 18+ months, during which time nobody has been moving jobs. So there are no clued-in people coming in from the outside to tell Google how far behind they are, how utterly mediocre they have become as an eng org. — Steve Yegge, provocative, as always Posted 13th April 2026 at 8:59 pm Recent articles Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools - 8th April 2026 Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me - 7th April 2026 The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026 This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 13th April 2026. google 402 steve-yegge 11 ai 1958 generative-ai 1738 llms 1705 agentic-engineering 42 Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026