Daily Reading List – February 21, 2025 (#497)

I went to Disneyland yesterday with my family to have some fun and remind myself of why theme parks are insane. It was refreshing to stay away from work email for a day, and I paid for it today. But all caught up now, and I made a dent in the reading queue!

[article] Can English Dethrone Python as Top Programming Language? Don’t sleep on natural language (and prompt engineering) as a distinct skill in modern computing.

[article] Prompt Engineering: Is it a New Programming Language? Related to the above. Here’s a “debate” on this topic that you can watch, or read.

[blog] Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist. Wow. Here’s a multi-agent system that pairs with a scientist to help them work through hypotheses and research.

[article] Software Quality. Abi looks at a research paper that outlines four types of software quality that influence each other. Very helpful.

[blog] The Triangle of Agents. I like seeing folks come at this topic from different angles. Brian explores a framing to think about the capabilities of agents. Analysis like this is necessary before shoving a bunch of new tools into your org.

[blog] Introducing Cloud DNS public IP health checks, for more resilient multicloud deployments. Pretty cool. Use Google’s backbone to route traffic across clouds or on-prem as needed.

[article] Design Platforms to Be Replaced, Not Forever. You can’t future-proof. That’s not a thing. You will have to replace things over time. This post makes a good point that you can replace subsystems versus entire platforms.

[blog] We switched from Java to Go and don’t regret it. Java is great, and you can spend your whole career with it and have no regrets. For many types of apps, other languages could be a stronger choice for you.

[blog] The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI. Definitely some truth to this. We all need to stop, slow down, and go deeper on topics.

[blog] A Simple Definition Of “Platform.” That’s … a pretty good definition! Platform is an overloaded term, but this seems like a good way to talk about it.

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