Daily Reading List – March 7, 2025 (#507)

It’s the end of a good week for me, and tomorrow I’m off to Paris for events and customer meetings. I haven’t packed yet, because I’m a last-minute packer. You?

[blog] What Are Agentic Workflows? Patterns, Use Cases, Examples, and More. I liked this post as it does a good job explaining agents, and some important patterns.

[article] How a DevEx Initiative Aims To Save 500,000 Developer Hours. If you help each developer eek out a few extra hours of joyful coding, you’ll be in amazing shape.

[article] Accelerating engineering velocity at Block. More on the same story from above, with additional details. What projects are driving this new velocity for their developers?

[blog] Will the future of software development run on vibes? Are you vibe coding in your free time? If that makes no sense to you, read this.

[blog] Building AI Agents with Google’s Gen AI Toolbox and Neo4j Knowledge Graphs. I can imagine how useful graph databases would be to agents trying to research or plan work. Follow along with this example.

[blog] Great software design looks underwhelming. Important point here. Sophistication is often an anti-pattern.

[blog] Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes. Another from Simon, but this feels like a very important point to amplify. Learn how to read and review code written by others, even LLMs!

[blog] Discovering new words with confidential federated analytics. Federated learning is cool, but I can imagine that folks can still feel weird about their device being part of the borg. This new technique should assuage some of those fears.

[blog] Gemini 2.0 Deep Dive: Code Execution. It’s exciting to see LLMs able to generate *and* execute code via API. Follow along here using Google AI Studio too.

[blog] Code Reviews with AI: a Developer Guide. AI shouldn’t just help you crank out code; it should be helping you improve quality as well.

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