Former Google engineer Steve Yegge claims Google’s internal AI adoption looks like a tractor company’s, not a frontier lab’s. He says the internal usage distribution looks like this: 20% power users, 60% on basic chat tools, 20% refusing entirely.

According to Yegge and his sources, DeepMind uses Claude daily but the rest of the company gets pushed onto internal Gemini products. Demis Hassabis wasn’t impressed and called the numbers “absolute nonsense” but Yegge has responded this week saying internal Googlers corroborated his original claims.

Sundar Pichai also revealed that 75% of the company’s new code is now AI generated and so the true picture of what’s actually happening in Google is muddled.