13th April 2026 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 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.