Daily Reading List – March 31, 2025 (#523)

It’s a short week with my trip to Las Vegas on Thursday ahead of Google Cloud Next. I don’t like the widget in Google Calendar that shows me that 18.6 of my Mon-Wed hours are spent in meetings.

[article] MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters. You’ll have no questions left after reading Addy’s post about this protocol and system that helps AI agents access external resources in a consistent way.

[blog] Meet MCP: Your LLM’s Super-Helpful Assistant! More on MCP, with an actual demo of how you’d build the components yourself.

[report] 2025 Emerging Technology Trends. I don’t know of another company that spends more on technology than JPMC. Here’s their annual tech report that’s worth a look.

[blog] Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison. it’s borderline blasphemy to say anything but Claude—an outstanding model—is the best at coding. But Gemini is coming in strong.

[article] Top 10 App Developer Skills and Trends to Learn in 2025. Solid list. Would your learning goals look different today compared to what you planned on January 1st?

[article] Is this strategy any good? How do you evaluate a strategy? When should you end a strategy? Will explores these questions.

[article] Google Just Showed How To Sell Agentic AI — Will Rivals Pay Attention? Honestly, I rarely hear people give credit to Google for customer-oriented selling (versus hyper-focusing on the engineering). But we’re getting it.

[article] 5 Levels of Agentic AI Systems. Speaking of agents, here’s a short, visual look at different agent patterns.

[article] Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion. I know folks who’ve recently joined, and it’s not surprising to see a fresh AI-centric view from them.

[article] How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder. Don’t copy+paste someone else’s journey. Your’s will differ. But it’s great to observe what others have learned.

[article] How engineering managers can use GenAI. This list applies to most technical leaders. Figure out where you can start making AI do some of the work!

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