A software engineer at Google has skewered the company’s efforts to pivot to AI, calling out the tech giant’s executives out as being “profoundly boring and glassy-eyed.” In a widely circulating LinkedIn post, Massachusetts-based engineer Diane Theriault didn’t hold back. “Right now, all of these boring, glassy-eyed leaders are trying to point in a vague direction (AI) while at the same time killing their golden goose,” she wrote. Theriault was responding to the latest round of layoffs, which affected hundreds of employees in the company’s ad sales team. “Given that they have no real vision of their own, they really need their subordinates to come up with cool stuff for them,” she added. And more layoffs are reportedly on the way. Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Google employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge to expect more cuts. “We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year,” he wrote. “The reality is that to create the capacity for this investment, we have to make tough choices.” …