It was a good day, and tomorrow I’m jetting up to Sunnyvale for some fun meetings at Cloud HQ. It’s easy to get caught up in everything changing all around us, but I remind myself to enjoy the present moment, learn new things, and not worry about tomorrow.
[blog] We Let AI Agents Rewrite a 92M-Message-a-Day Service in Go. Zero Incidents. Go proved to be a good choice (migrating from JavaScript) and this team took a reasonable approach to ensuring the new system satisfied the requirements.
[blog] I trust my coding agents with production secrets now. Stored in a vault, but still notable. I like that he still isolates the agents in containers and uses a least privilege approach.
[blog] 5 things you shouldn’t vibe code (and what to use instead). Don’t build your own authentication system. It’s a solved problem. As are the other four things Karl calls out in this post.
[blog] Introducing Muse: The World’s First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone. Looks very good. Personal AI agents are about to be everywhere, and can make a legitimate difference in how you work.
[article] Do you even need a presentation? This proposes that a document should be used most often, with live presentations a last resort.
[blog] Safely Running Untrusted Code: A Hands-On Guide to Google Cloud Run Sandboxes. Tons of details here, which might inspire you to think of ways you’d isolate your agents or code runners.
[blog] .gitignore everything by default. I think I love this. I’m always scrambling to remove unnecessary files from my git commits. What if you start by denying everything and only selectively allowing what you want?
[blog] Agentic analytics with the Data Agent Kit. This set of MCP servers and agent skills let you do some serious data workflows all from your IDE.
[blog] Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? This pokes at one model, but honestly could apply to any. Armin wonders if the software factory is really a good idea.
[blog] Building a Real-Time Pickleball Agent with Spanner Omni: On-Device GraphRAG. Abi offers up an educational look at an edge-style deployment with this downloadable version of our premier Cloud Spanner databases.
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