🔧 The Quiet Revolution: How Firebase Became the First Agent-Native Backend at Google I/O 2026

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

The headlines from Google I/O 2026 were loud: Google Antigravity 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, multi-modal glasses, and a new era of AI hardware. But if you look past the flashy keynotes and dig into the developer documentation, a much quieter, more profound architectural shift took place....