🔥 I Tried Every Google I/O 2026 Developer Tool So You Don't Have To — Here's What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge

Google I/O 2026 dropped a wall of announcements in two hours.

The keynote sugar rush was real.

Every recap I've read picks one announcement and explains it. That's useful. But it doesn't answer the question I actually had after the livestream ended:

So I spent the last 48 hours building with four of the newest tools from I/O 2026. Not demo projects. Not "hello world." Real integration attempts into actual workflows.