How I Finally Let a Bot Handle My "Boring" Work

My Take on Google Cloud NEXT '26: The "Agentic" Era for the Rest of Us Everyone at NEXT '26 is talking about "Agents." If that sounds like sci-fi jargon, let’s clear it up: An Agent is just a chatbot that can actually do things—like file your taxes, organize your messy Google Drive, or follow up on an invoice—without you holding its hand. The announcement that matters most to me isn't the supercomputers; it's Workspace Studio. It’s basically a "Build-A-Bot" workshop for people who have better th