Six days before Google I/O, I pushed the final commit to my open-source project. Two days later, Google announced they'd productized the hardest parts of it.

That's the story. And it's not a complaint — it's the most useful thing I can share about what I/O 2026 actually means for how we build software.

The Setup: What I Spent Six Months Building

NeuroScale is a self-service platform that lets developers deploy AI models to production without understanding the infrastructure underneath. A developer fills in a form, a pull request gets created automatically, automated checks validate it, it deploys itself, and a working AI endpoint goes live.

The developer sees a form and an endpoint. They don't see the 13 things that happen in between.