Every solo developer knows the dread of a Friday afternoon deployment. You push a minor update to a user profile component, and somehow your entire payment processing pipeline goes offline. That is the harsh reality of living with a legacy monolith.
Over five years of rapid development, my side project turned into a massive web of tightly coupled logic. The user system relied on the billing system. The billing system relied on the notification service. Extracting these pieces into clean microservices was on my to do list for years. The problem is that I am just one person. I simply did not have the six months required to manually trace thousands of undocumented files and untangle the mess by myself.
When I watched the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the announcements around agentic workflows caught my attention immediately. I realized I could finally automate this nightmare. I built an autonomous extraction worker and named it Flash.
Flash is designed to read my entire repository, map the hidden dependencies, and generate clean pull requests that isolate code into independent microservices.
If you missed the developer announcements, you can watch the keynote embed below where Google revealed the new agent platforms and context windows that make this possible:
