Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

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Google employees are internally sharing memes criticizing the quality of AI-generated code, contrasting with CEO Sundar Pichai's public statements that 75% of new code is AI-generated.

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# Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks Source: [https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/](https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/) Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI\-generated\. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped\. ![Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0f/76/0f76b548-bc58-4f25-abc3-3f5ebca07da4/content/images/size/w2000/2026/06/doubt-meme.jpg) While Google CEO Sundar Pichai proudly tells the world that[75 percent](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/cloud-next-2026-sundar-pichai/?ref=404media.co)of all new code at the company is AI\-generated, internally Google employees are sharing memes about how AI is bad at that exact task and makes their job harder\. ## This post is for paid members only Become a paid member for unlimited ad\-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more\. [Subscribe](https://www.404media.co/membership/) ## Sign up for free access to this post Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round\-up of our week's stories\. [Subscribe](https://www.404media.co/signup/) Already have an account?[Sign in](https://www.404media.co/signin/)

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