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 now, AI has mostly been: Copilot for code Chatbots for support Assistants for productivity But NEXT ’26 pushes a different idea: What if AI doesn’t just assist … What if it plans, decides, and executes entire workflows ? That’s where agents come in. ⚙️ Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Why This Actually Matters) At first glance, this looks like “just another platform”. It’s not.…