Daily Reading List – March 5, 2025 (#505)

It’s happening. Day by day, I find myself using more AI stuff to do my daily job. Today it was help generating ideas and example code for a library that seemed complicated to start with from scratch. And then doing two different “research” efforts for things I’m writing about. You resisting, or starting to incorporate AI more?

[article] Is Incrementalism Holding Back Your AI Strategy? Maybe you’re playing it safe and aiming low with AI. Just update this current process, or tweak that product. This article encourages you to recognize the high stakes.

[blog] Function Calling Guide: Google DeepMind Gemini 2.0 Flash. So good. Philipp digs into what function calling is all about and how to do it. This is such an important topic for those building AI apps.

[article] “I scratched my own itch” isn’t good enough. Excellent reminder to get outside and talk to people. Just because your product idea was brilliant for solving your problem doesn’t mean it’s relevant to others.

[article] People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now. This is the way. Real intelligence is knowing all the hidden rewards and warp zones in this game.

[blog] Ensuring AI Code Quality with SonarQube + Gemini Code Assist. There probably won’t be one product to rule them all. Plugins, components, and agents will work together to make our software and systems better.

[blog] Do developers need code samples in API documentation? My team owns docs and code samples, so a discussion like this piques my interest. What do people want out of code samples in docs nowadays?

[blog] Streamline your LangChain deployments with LangServe. You’re going to see a lot about deploying and hosting agents. The tech is emerging quickly. Here’s an example of a workload you can containerize and run in Kubernetes.

[blog] Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode. Our first AI experiments in Search were well-intentioned but a bit clumsy. It’s looker better now.

[article] How do developers fix bugs differently when they don’t author them? We fix our own bugs faster, which might not be a surprise?

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