Google employees have been flocking to an internal AI tool called Agent Smith that automates coding and other tasks, with demand so high that access had to be restricted to manage the influx of users.
SAN FRANCISCO: It does not wear a trench coat, it does not need a nap pod, and the stock options are still up for debate. But Agent Smith has officially entered the Googleplex, and Google’s own employees cannot get enough of it.
Three people familiar with the matter have confirmed to reporters that Google has been quietly rolling out an internal AI tool called Agent Smith, designed to automate tasks including coding. The name is almost certainly a nod to the iconic antagonist from The Matrix, and given how quickly it has taken over, the reference feels entirely appropriate.
Agent Smith has become so popular internally that Google was forced to restrict access to handle the sheer volume of employees trying to use it, according to two people familiar with the situation. When a tool gets so in-demand that you have to put a queue on it, that tells you something important about how useful people actually find it.
Built on top of Google’s existing agentic coding platform known as Antigravity, Agent Smith can interact with a range of internal tools and, crucially, it works asynchronously. That means it operates in the background without requiring an active laptop session. Employees can check in with it, give it new instructions, and monitor its progress directly from their phones, freeing them up to focus on other things while the agent handles the heavy lifting.
The emergence of Agent Smith at Google is a significant signal about where enterprise AI is heading. The technology has moved well beyond the chatbot phase and is now operating as a genuine autonomous collaborator inside one of the world’s most advanced technology companies.
If Google’s own engineers are this enthusiastic about an AI agent doing their coding tasks, the rest of the industry is paying very close attention.
