Daily Reading List – June 30, 2025 (#578)

Spent a small bit of time this weekend playing with using agents to build agents. How meta! Today, many of our engineering leads answered Gemini CLI questions in this Reddit AMA. What a wild time for builders.

[blog] Docker State of App Dev: AI. Docker’s second annual app dev survey has some useful data points.

[blog] The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It’s Context Engineering. You’ll see this term popping up a lot now, maybe like vibe coding. It feels like an important idea.

[blog] How to Fix Your Context. Building on the previous items, how should you think smartly about creating and maintaining context used by an agent? Great post.

[blog] Go 1.25 interactive tour. These are always terrific posts. Anton publishes these assessments of Go releases by letting you test out the features right within the blog post. See his related (and interactive) look at the new JSON handling capabilities.

[blog] Using Platform Engineering to simplify the developer experience – part one. Doing platform engineering wrong is a headache. But doing it well it a major accelerator.

[article] Lessons learned from agentic AI leaders reveal critical deployment strategies for enterprises. Success metrics, infrastructure guidance, testing approaches, and more.

[article] AI Agents Are Revolutionizing the Software Development Life Cycle. It’s true. Some are realizing it sooner than others!

[blog] Audit smarter: Introducing Google Cloud’s Recommended AI Controls framework. Governance and compliance, the two buzzkills of every interesting technology movement. But done right, you can go fast and stay safe. This seems like one way to do it.

[blog] APIs Versioning. No new ground, but it’s a good topic to refresh yourself on from time to time. And a reminder for those who keep breaking APIs.

[blog] How To Overcome Negative Thoughts: 4 Secrets From Philosophy. We all experience moments of self-doubt and internal questions of our own abilities. How do you keep from spiraling?

[blog] From Prompt to Code Part 1: Inside the Gemini CLI’s Execution Engine. I haven’t seen this yet. The post isn’t just a look at what the Gemini CLI does, but actually explores the source code.

[blog] This Week in Open Source for June 27, 2025. I’m liking where this weekly update is going. It provides a broad look at the open source landscape and what’s happening.

[blog] Gemma 3n fully available in the open-source ecosystem! Hugging Face does some of the best tech blog posts in our industry. Here’s a great one that looks at this small open model.

[blog] Our latest bet on a fusion-powered future. Good bet, it seems. We’re making a notable investment here.

[article] Why Software Migrations Fail: It’s Not the Code. I imagine that AI is going to “fix” parts of this, but still a reminder that code update aren’t the only thing you need to worry about when doing a migration project.

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