The Other Side of Google I/O 2026 — What Disappointed and What Surprised
Parts 1 through 4 covered what Google got right: Flash economics, serverless agents, Gemini Omni, and the Gemini CLI shutdown. This final piece covers the other side — three things that disappointed and one thing that surprised everyone, including me.
Disappointment 1: Antigravity 2.0 — Great Vision, Brutal Execution
The demo was spectacular. A demo showing an OS built by 93 agents over 12 hours, plus a playable Doom clone, all on stage. Agents as first-class deployment targets — versioning, rollback, observability baked in. The vision is sound.
Then the forced update shipped.
