This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge
The moment that changed how I thought about I/O 2026: Not the Gemini 3.5 keynote. Not the XR glasses. It was the demo where Jules — an autonomous coding agent — opened a pull request on a GitHub repo, with passing CI, while the presenter was still talking. No human wrote a single line. The PR was ready before the slide changed.
That's not a feature. That's a paradigm shift.
What I/O 2026 Was Actually About
Every year, Google I/O has a "real" story beneath the flashy demos. In 2023, it was "we're catching up to ChatGPT." In 2024, it was "Gemini is everywhere." In 2025, it was "multimodality is real."
