Daily Reading List – May 14, 2025 (#552)

Today’s list has an informative mix of advice and news. Learn how to build visual artifacts in your docs, how to design APIs, the right way to think about junior developers, and how to handle stress around layoffs.

[blog] API quick reference diagrams and my upcoming AI the Docs presentation. Use that long context of LLMs to turn lots of content into something digestible. NotebookLM does this now with mindmaps, and Tom shows how to create API quick reference diagrams.

[article] Google’s Gemini chatbot can now more easily analyze GitHub projects. Speaking of understanding lots of content, I like that the Gemini app can now “read” public or private GitHub projects and help you understand it better.

[blog] AI Won’t Kill Junior Devs – But Your Hiring Strategy Might. If you lead tech teams or have the ear of someone who does, read this and ensure that others do as well.

[blog] Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification. This looks excellent. AI knowledge isn’t just for tech folks. Here’s a unique AI certification (along with free training) for non-tech folks.

[blog] CRUD APIs are Poor Design. Throwing create-read-update-delete operations on your core entities isn’t an API strategy. Derek proposes a better approach.

[blog] The Android Show: I/O Edition. Here’s a set of blogs from yesterday’s Android event that highlighted some visual updates, expansion to more devices, and some impressive stats.

[blog] Democratizing database observability with AI-assisted troubleshooting. Learn how to debug and troubleshoot, and also take advantage of tools that make it easier.

[blog] Build and train a recommender system in 10 minutes using Keras and JAX. News flash, not everything is an LLM. If you’re building recommendation models, this looks useful.

[article] When Your Layoff Anxiety Won’t Go Away. I’ve seen people paralyze over this fear. It’s not an unreasonable one in this climate. But the incessant worrying will have negative effects.

[blog] Improving Hugging Face Model Access for Kaggle Users. Nice to see. Kaggle users get something, and Hugging Faace users get something.

[article] Despite AI challenges, CEOs say they are doubling down on investments. You’ll find a handful of interesting stats in this post. Amazing to see 54% of CEOs hiring for AI-related roles that didn’t even exist a year ago.

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