In this conversation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson sits down with Google’s Kaslin Fields and Shubhika Taneja, plus GKE hackathon winner Amie Wei, to celebrate 10 years of Google Kubernetes Engine. They reflect on how Kubernetes has evolved from a small open-source project into foundational infrastructure for GenAI and emerging agentic AI, unpacking GKE’s latest announcements such as agent Sandbox and new LLM-aware inference gateway APIs and inference perf designed to serve billions of tokens efficiently without breaking the bank. Taneja also outlines Google’s core principles for the next wave of cloud-native AI workloads, from investing in open-source Kubernetes to delivering managed Kubernetes excellence on GKE and supporting diverse users across tools like Slurm and Ray. The discussion then dives into the GKE 10-year hackathon, where developers were challenged to “put an AI on it” by augmenting long-standing sample apps with Gemini-powered intelligence on Kubernetes. Wei shares how she used vibe coding, the A2A protocol and generous Google credits to turn the Online Boutique demo into an online grocery experience with an AI assistant that suggests recipes from cart items and even factors in stock levels, making AI feel less daunting and more addictive to build with. Fields and Taneja highlight trends such as multi-agent architectures and offer practical advice for first-time hackers and those who don’t always see themselves represented in tech: seek out welcoming communities, lean on tools like the Gemini CLI to get hands-on quickly and remember you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.