Daily Reading List – October 14, 2025 (#648)

I published a blog post today, and also had a chance to read a lot of interesting content.

[blog] Agents 2.0: From Shallow Loops to Deep Agents. Philipp talks about agents that don’t just react within a loop, but orchestrate more complex patterns.

[blog] The new AI-driven SDLC. Some good thoughts here, and I suspect we’ll see more written about this in the coming months.

[blog] 2024 Open Source Contributions: A Year in Review. Yes, these numbers are impressive. But what’s better is the display of the breadth of engagement needed for healthy open source ecosystems.

[blog] Deploy Faster with Terraform: Your Guide to vLLM on GKE with Infrastructure-as-Code. Can you be agile with your infrastructure? Sure. Karl shows off the use of Terraform for ML engineering.

[blog] Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks. This recent independent test had Vercel coming out a clear performance winner. I like that Cloudflare’s response was particularly defensive, and that this triggered some improvements in their end. Well done.

[blog] DevRel Activity Patterns… published. I had the chance to provide content reviews of this book, and imagine this material will be useful to many teams.

[blog] Understanding Etsy’s Vast Inventory with LLMs. Can LLMs help you describe and understand millions of products? That’s what Etsy is doing.

[blog] The Key Vibe Coding Practices. Here’s another book I reviewed a few months ago. This is an excerpt ahead of its release.

[blog] Is the Vibe Coding Bubble Starting to Burst? Have we hit peak vibe coding? I’m not as doomer as this article, but the data does show that the honeymoon may be over.

[blog] Building Bulletproof LLM Applications: A Guide to Applying SRE Best Practices. Lots of advice here for building in resilience and responding quickly when app issues arise.

[blog] DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back. More open positions. I hope this isn’t for classic DevRel that had looser metrics and softer connection to company success. I doubt it!

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