What Steve Yegge thinks about innovation
Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Yegge has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingGoogle has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.
Their wordsIn fact, innovation died on the vine like all together and since I don't know, 2008, there has been no innovation from Google. It's all been acquisitions. They have they've created nothing new.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 17th of 25 in this recording
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Their wordsSo, I think what's happening is we're all looking at the big companies going, "When are you going to give us something?" And the answer is we're looking at the big dead companies. We just don't know they're dead yet.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 19th of 25 in this recording