The drama between a software engineering veteran and Google is heating up — and playing out in public

A former Google engineer has gotten the company’s goat.

And after receiving rare pushback in public from the tech giant’s AI CEO, the computer programming veteran is now doubling down.

Steve Yegge, a software engineering veteran who used to work at the company, has faced a public onslaught after claiming last week that a “buddy at Google who’s been a tech director there for about 20 years” essentially said that their AI adoption internally was severely lagging.

Google’s internal AI…