Comment by SyneRyder

> Are there many devs at Google who legit prefer Gemini over Claude and Codex? Would love to hear about that.

A few weeks ago, Steve Yegge claimed he'd heard that Google employees are banned from using Claude & Codex.

https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2046260541912707471

A number of Googlers replied to say that was totally false, including Demis Hassabis, but they were all on the DeepMind team.

https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2043867486320222333

This person here claims they left Google because of the ban, and because the ban applied outside of Google work as well:

https://x.com/mihaimaruseac/status/2046272726881693960