Daily Reading List – January 15, 2025 (#473)

Some ups and downs today, but I’m a big believer that the secret to a happy life is maintaining perspective. All in all, good day. In today’s reading list, there are a handful of pieces that will really make you think.

[blog] Writing a tech blog people want to read. Is the recipe for blog popularity to have “clear opinions about working in tech that many people disagree with”? There’s truth to that. Rehashing the same topics or offering milquetoast opinions won’t earn many views.

[blog] The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List. Wow. Bookmark this and work through content here that catches your eye. These are some excellent references to key AI engineering topics like evals, RAG, agents, code generation, and fine tuning.

[repo] Multimodal Live Agent. Here’s a cool sample app that shows off a pattern for real-time agents powered by Google Gemini.

[blog] The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric. Great story here. Excessive build times might be killing you, but nobody is focused on it. Liz explains how Honeycomb got their builds back down to 7 minutes.

[blog] Continuing Resolutions. Brian points out that enterprise debt (tech debt) reminds him of “continuing resolutions” which the US government uses in lieu of proper budget planning. Our enterprise debt is a similar accumulation of suboptimal decisions.

[blog] AI Agents Are Here. What Now? The Hugging Face team join the fray on agents. They’ve got some good definitions and value assessments here.

[blog] Google Workspace business customers now get the latest in generative AI. This is GREAT news for folks. AI features should be baked into more products, not something you have to add-on later.

[blog] Your Single-Page Applications Are Vulnerable: Here’s How to Fix Them. Here’s some actionable advice from the Mandiant folks. Make sure you’re not exposed to any of these vulnerabilities.

[blog] The Dream of Hadoop is Alive in AI. Enjoyable post from Steve that digs into the history of Hadoop, and how AI brings us closer to the vision of a query interface for mass consumption.

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