Google's Internal 'Agent Smith' Is So Popular With Employees That Access Had to Be Restricted
It doesn’t wear a suit. It doesn’t take breaks. And it just got too popular to let everyone use. Business Insider reported this week that Google has been quietly running an internal autonomous coding tool called Agent Smith — and it’s been causing quite a stir inside the Googleplex. The tool became so heavily used that Google had to restrict access just to keep up with demand. The name is almost certainly a Matrix reference, which either says something about Google’s sense of humor or its appetite for irony when naming the autonomous agent that’s here to change how software gets built. ...