Overview
- Agent Smith grew so popular inside Google that the company temporarily limited access to manage demand, according to multiple reports.
- Employees use the agent to automate tasks like coding while it runs in the background, and they can give updates or new instructions from their phones.
- The tool also works through Google's internal chat, which lets staff trigger jobs and check progress without opening a laptop.
- Built on Google's Antigravity platform, the agent taps internal systems and employee profiles to fetch files and data that workers would otherwise pull by hand.
- Leaders have made agents a priority this year, with Sergey Brin telling staff they will be a major focus and managers warning that AI use may factor into performance reviews, while Google officially says it is experimenting and offered no further details.