I Watched Google Cloud NEXT '26 With the Billing Page Open

At 9 AM Pacific, Google Cloud NEXT started selling the agentic enterprise. At 9:07, I opened the billing page. Not because I do not believe in agents. I do. That is the problem. I believe in them enough to know that a demo can become a production incident with better lighting. So I watched the Firebase announcements with three tabs open: the livestream coverage, the Firebase AI Logic update, and the quiet little corner of the cloud console where enthusiasm turns into invoice line items. My rule