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@Steve_Yegge I'm using Gemini 3.1 Pro all the time and I don't get better results when I try Claude Opus or ChatGPT (Plus)
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My tweet last week about Google's AI adoption drew a lot of pushback, to say the least.
Since then, Googlers from multiple orgs have reached out to me independently and anonymously. They've expressed fear of being doxxed, concern about what they saw as bullying of me, and general corroboration of my original tweet. I haven't verified each person's story, but the picture these Googlers paint is consistent across sources. It is more specific than what I originally wrote, and somewhat bleaker.
What they describe is a two-tier system. DeepMind engineers use Claude as a daily tool. Most of the rest of Google does not. When the question of equalizing access came up internally, the proposed response was to remove Claude for everyone — which DeepMind objected to so strongly that several engineers reportedly threatened to leave.
Non-DeepMind engineers get pushed onto internal Gemini variants behind router-style names that obscure which underlying model is actually serving a request. Multiple engineers describe regressions and reliability problems severe enough that some senior people have stopped using the tools. A senior manager on a major product line reportedly flagged attrition concerns over exactly this issue.
Googlers say leadership knows the gap is real. The response has been to mandate AI usage in OKRs and individual expectations, and to stand up an internal token-usage leaderboard. Unfortunately, managers have been told both that the leaderboard won't be used for performance reviews and, separately, that it absolutely will. And I hear other stories that Google's culture is not adapted properly yet for high-volume coding.
Addy Osmani's reply on behalf of Google said over 40,000 SWEs use agentic coding weekly. I don't doubt the number. But weekly use of a thin tool is precisely the box-checking I described in the original post. Volume of opens isn't adoption — and "weekly" is a low bar that includes a lot of people who tried it once and went back to writing code by hand.
The clearest thing I'm hearing is that Googlers do want to use high-quality agentic tools. They are asking repeatedly for better ones. But overall, this is not a picture of an engineering org that is fine.
My goal in the first tweet, and now, is always the same — get more people using AI and agentic coding. Nobody is as far ahead as they might look from the outside, and none of you are as far behind as you might be worried you are.
To all the Googlers who've reached out: thank you. You took a real risk and I appreciate you. Be safe. And good luck getting good models!
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Het is heel heel simpel: Het kost geen 15 jaar om af te glijden naar een totalitaire staat met autoritair bestuur. Ongeacht met welke partij of ideologie dat zou zijn, is dat een grondige reden om niet alles met de overheid te delen.
Stijn Baert@Stijn_Baert
@IveMarx Ik ben ook niet tegen moneycontrol. Waarom zouden we zovelen, die elke dag binnen de lijntjes hun best doen, nog meer gaan belasten als we ook gewoon de valsspelers hun deel kunnen laten betalen? Als je alles correct doet, weet de overheid toch ook al wat er binnenkomt?
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Goed artikel vandaag over #ChatControl door @DieterDeCleene (in @demorgen), met quotes van @bpreneel1 en @DOBBELAEREW.
Hoog tijd dat alle andere media volgen. Onze privacy wordt verpatst door onze politieke leiders, en amper iemand die het beseft.
demorgen.be/nieuws/afzwakk…
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Dit is volgens mij het énige artikel in de Vlaamse media over de recente stappen om een verregaande #ChatControl-regulering langs de achterdeur binnen te smokkelen.
Dank, @knack @DOBBELAEREW #TreesVandamme. Geen dank, alle andere media.
datanews.knack.be/nieuws/europa/…
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📣 Verbied #ChatControl in onze Grondwet!
Art. 29 Grondwet geeft ons recht op briefgeheim, maar chatberichten zijn de brieven van de 21ste eeuw. Waarom zou de overheid die wél mogen lezen?
Voorstel gelanceerd vandaag in @Knack. ⬇️🧵

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🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:
Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.
France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages. The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.
Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.
Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.
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Rules for thee but not for me.
Fidias Panayiotou@Fidias0
Von der Leyen is Deleting Texts AGAIN
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The EU Chat Control proposal would be a catastrophe for Europe. It would seal Europeans behind a new digital Berlin wall, cut off from Signal and other e2e messengers. It's embarrassing and dangerous that it's gotten this close already. Time to bail to back to sanity.
Signal@signalapp
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…
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Von der Leyen kondigt een European Centre for Democratic Resilience aan. Klinkt mooi, maar in werkelijkheid gaat het om een EU-agentschap dat “desinformatie” moet opsporen en bestrijden, gecombineerd met méér subsidies voor zogezegd “onafhankelijke” media. In praktijk betekent dat: Brussel beslist wat waarheid is, en media die braaf meehuilen krijgen geld.
We zijn dus maar één stap verwijderd van een Europees Ministerie van Waarheid. Angstaanjagend dat zoveel politici dit schaapachtig steunen. Democratie sterft niet met één klap, maar met duizend kleine maatregelen zoals deze.
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Helfies wanneer Bart De Wever hun financiële privacy schendt door de fiscus de macht te geven om de rekeningen van elke burger systematisch in het oog te houden met AI: *stilte*
Dezelfde helfies wanneer iemand het overspel van De Wever vermeldt: "Dat is privé!!!"
#slavenvolk
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@FinanceFilosoof Ik Woon in Singapore, daarvoor in Bangkok. Southeast Asia is the way to go!
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