Daily Reading List – July 1, 2025 (#579)

It was a fun day in Sunnyvale learning from the Redmonk folks. We talked about “developers” all day, and picked up some good insights. Before that, lots of reading.

[blog] Beyond the Prototype: 15 Hard-Earned Lessons to Ship Production-Ready AI Agents. Great topic. This post has some strong advice and useful checklists for those thinking of putting agents in production.

[blog] Gen AI Evaluation Service — An Overview. I’ve mentioned here a few times that building skills in evals is a good idea. Mete spends time in this post exploring one eval service for models, tools, and agents.

[article] The AI-Native Software Engineer. My colleague Addy published a super playbook on incorporating AI deeply into the software engineering discipline. We published complementary posts at almost exactly the same time today.

[article] Why attitudes and experiences differ so much with regards to AI among technical writers. Adoption and opinions of AI are all over the map. Tom spends some time thinking through the tech writer mindset.

[blog] Go should be more opinionated. The point here is about application layout and structure. I’ve definitely seen a few approaches, and not sure the language should dictate one. But, a smart default is a good idea.

[blog] Docs for AI agents. Here’s a good mishmash of thoughts about the docs agents use to plan and do their work on your codebase.

[blog] Why We Replaced Kafka with gRPC for Service Communication. Have you fallen in love with a tool/service and use it for everything? We’ve all been there. I liked this look at switching from Kafka to gRPC for many use cases.

[blog] Gemini CLI Tutorial Series — Part 2 : Gemini CLI Command line parameters. Romin does a great job reviewing each CLI flag. Here’s how you control model choice, debug mode, sandboxing, YOLO mode, and more.

[blog] Everything I know about good system design. Patterns evolve, the tech changes, and what’s “good” doesn’t stay the same. But the items called out here represent some solid design truths.

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