Last month, Steve Yegge suggested that they are not: https://xcancel.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2043747998740689171

NitpickLawyer 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> He says the problem is that they can't use Claude Code because it's the enemy, and Gemini has never been good enough to capture people's workflows like Claude has, so basically agentic coding just never really took off inside Google. They're all just plodding along, completely oblivious to what's happening out there right now.

This is a bunch of gabagoo. Wrong on so many layers, it's not even worth reading further.

a) goog has agentic coding in both antigravity & cli forms. While it is not at the level of cc + opus, it's still decent.

b) goog has their own versions of models trained on internal code

c) goog has claude in vertex, and most definitely can set it up in secure zones (like they can for their clients) so they'd be able to use claude (at cost) within their own projects.

	▲	aleksiy123 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed, however imo there is def some problems unique to Google which is making the internal experience less than ideal. Hoping they can figure it out sooner rather than later.

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stormbeard 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Demis Hassabis chimed in on that thread and called it what it is: clickbait.

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typs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m not so sure. From talking to some of my own friends at google they feel that antigravity/gemini models are handicapping them and would much rather be using claude code (which only deepmind gets to use)

	▲	beanard 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but there's cavernous distance between "google = john deere" and "darn I have to use Gemini"

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PunchTornado 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This couldn't be further from the truth

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FrustratedMonky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is value in the "eating your own dog food".

If internal staff aren't happy with the tools they build, typically that should drive improvements to their own tools