Engineers threaten to quit when their employer floats removing a rival's tool

Claim

Steve Yegge reported that DeepMind engineers use Claude daily and threatened to quit when Google floated removing it, prompting the company to assemble a strike team and unite its coding efforts, even as it noted 75% of its new code is already AI-generated.

Reported metric: 75% of code

Reporting date: 2026-04-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to April 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)