Okay, real talk. When Google Cloud NEXT '26 happened, I did what most developers do — I skimmed the tweet threads, saw "8th gen TPUs" and "Agentic Enterprise" trending, nodded along, and moved on with my day. Then I actually sat down and watched the keynotes. Both of them. And I want to share what genuinely surprised me, what I think is being underrated in all the coverage, and where I think Google still has some explaining to do. This isn't a press release rewrite. This is me working through what I understood — and what I think it means for people who are actually building things. First — What Even Is the "Agentic Enterprise"? Every tech conference needs a buzzword, and NEXT '26's is "Agentic." Thomas Kurian used it approximately 400 times in the opening keynote. But beneath the marketing, there's a real shift being described. For the past couple of years, most of us have been building AI features — a chatbot here, a summarization endpoint there. Stateless. One-shot.…