The Bible's story is about human language, specifically about how human languages encompass greater degrees of abstraction over time (languages built on top of languages, abstractions built on top of abstractions).
But, when you get to a certain level of abstractions, the abstractions start to "leak". That is why there are communication difficulties in societies (people who are more educated typically speak a different language than people who are less educated; academia and lawyers speak their own language).
This is also when/where/why/how software starts to fail.
Too many levels of abstraction, and those abstractions will "leak".
Don't take my word for it, use your own logic, your own common sense and think about it...
Software problem A exists.
Management Team: "We have a problem, can you fix it?"
Programming Team: "Sure." (fixes it, but this causes problem B, which is not recognized until several weeks later)
Management Team: "Now we have this different problem, can you fix it?"
Programming Team: "Sure." (fixes it, but this cause problem A to resurface, which is not detected for several weeks...)
Management Team: "We have a problem, can you fix it?"
And the cycle repeats...
Was it the programming team's fault?
No, it was the nature of the beast called "complexity". The higher you go in abstractions (and this is especially true for AI), the more you must exercise ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE. You must be able to go BACKWARDS IN TIME (this is accomplished in programming by being able to go back to simpler programs and fully understand / test them before advancing to more complex ones, and PRESERVING THAT CHAIN OF UNDERSTANDING...).
This is probably why advanced societies destroy themselves, too much abstraction, too much "magic" (without understanding of all of the sublevels), and no one has the exact knowledge necessary to pinpoint exactly when/where/why the exact problem occurred...
But again, don't take my word for it. Use your own common sense to determine if what I'm saying has any merit...
Either you seriously over estimate the limits of ones understanding, or you severely under estimate the size of Google’s codebase/monorepo.
At this point, I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to even check it out on a single developers workstation due to its size.