We Can Build AI Agents After Google Cloud NEXT ‘26 - But We Can’t Test or Debug Them

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge We Can Build AI Agents After Google Cloud NEXT ‘26 — But We Can’t Test or Debug Them At Google Cloud NEXT ‘26, we were handed something powerful: Systems that can plan, decide, collaborate, and act . With A2A enabling agent-to-agent communication, ADK accelerating agent development, and Vertex AI orchestrating intelligent workflows at scale, one thing is clear: We’ve entered the era of autonomous software. But beneath that progress