May 21, 20264 min readAI LandscapeGoogle's AI Stack Has an Operations ProblemGoogle had a strong Google I/O. Gemini 3.5 Flash is fast, the benchmarks are real, and the research is legitimately good. Then the Anti-Gravity CLI killed a developer tool people actually used, Railway went down mid-week on GCP, and Theo dropped a video titled "I'm scared to make this video" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p334v40npw) saying out loud what most builders had been thinking privately. The model isn't the problem. The everything-else is.