Daily Reading List – January 24, 2025 (#479)

Whew. That was a five day week in a four day schedule. But I do love what I do, and who I get to do it with. Go into the weekend with a bunch of thought-provoking content from today’s reading list.

[article] Why You Should Reconsider Your ‘Big Tech’ Job in 2025. Big Tech jobs are great. I’m enjoying the fast pace, top tier colleagues, and relevance of my work. Also, “traditional company” jobs are terrific. I wouldn’t trade my time at one for anything. Pick the right environment for the season of life you’re in.

[blog] Chain of Agents: Large language models collaborating on long-context tasks. Agents are one thing. Agents working together is a whole other thing.

[blog] Ignore the Grifters – AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry. Good take. The naysayers are naive about how much AI will change software development. The grifters are apparently unaware of how software actually gets built.

[blog] Amid The AI Hype, Agile Still Remains Relevant In 2025. This is a brief summary of a broader research report, but still conveys some useful points about agile development.

[article] OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously. One of many things that caught the hype train this week. I’m seeing many folks talk about it. This reminds me a bit of Anthropic’s computer use, and even our Project Mariner.

[blog] Build It Yourself. Provocative post. Instead of dragging so many dependencies into your code, maybe generate more of them yourself? Obviously pros and cons, but worth discussing.

[article] Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek. Quite a disruptive model release! It’s fast, cheap, and fully open. More here.

[blog] Distributed Systems and Organization Design. Ted takes the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing and creates a version related to Distributed Teams. Very interesting.

[blog] Safer automated deployments with new Cloud Deploy features. Lots to like in this fully managed continuous deployment tool.

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