We’re Not Building Apps Anymore - We’re Building AI Systems (My Take on Google NEXT ’26)

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge 🚀 From AI Tools to AI Teammates: My Take on Google Cloud NEXT ’26 Google Cloud NEXT ’26 didn’t feel like another AI event. It felt like a paradigm shift . We’re no longer building apps with AI features . We’re starting to build systems where AI runs the system itself . Google calls this the Agentic Enterprise — and after watching both keynotes, I think they’re right. 🧠 The Big Shift: From “AI Assistance” → “AI Execution” Until no