Daily Reading List – July 17, 2025 (#589)

I bumped into some engineering folks at the office who are changing how they work with agentic CLIs. It was inspiring to see a real story about how our work is changing very dramatically.

[article] The Founder’s Guide to Building a V1 of Customer Success. Good advice here, whether you’re setting up such a team for the first time, or rebooting a stagnant team.

[blog] Proactiveness considered harmful? A guide to customise the Gemini CLI to suit your coding style. Fantastically good post, and an example of where open source is so powerful. Daniela wants to make the Gemini CLI less proactive, and explains how to steer and customize the model’s behavior.

[article] Leading After Your Predecessor Fails. Did you take a job where you replaced someone else? Did they bomb out? Here’s guidance for how to repair the damage.

[blog] Simplify your Agent “vibe building” flow with ADK and Gemini CLI. We’ll see more frameworks and products doing this, I’m certain. The ADK offers an llms-full.txt file that you can give your AI tool as context. This gives you the most relevant responses back.

[blog] Where Technology Executives Will Be Investing In 2026. Maybe no surprises here, but a reminder that the APAC market has the highest rate of IT spending growth coming up.

[blog] Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers. It seems that many people are using Gradio to expose MCP servers, and there are new improvements to auth along with other areas.

[blog] How Renault Group is using Google’s software-defined vehicle industry solution. Cars nowadays are basically computers with wheels. Software matters a lot, and here’s a story of how one giant manufacturer is building for the future.

[article] What can we learn from Meta’s code improvement practices? Short, but interesting look at research into how Meta scopes, prioritizes, and executes on code improvement projects.

[blog] Why the analyst advisor industry is getting obliterated by AI… and how to save it. Shots fired! Feels spot on, and frankly applies to anyone in a role of “thought leadership.” Step up your game.

[blog] Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden. DeepSeek as a service joins models like Llama in our pay-as-you-go offering. Convenient when you don’t want to manage infra, or guess about capacity.

[blog] Vibe Coding Is the Future of Programming. Here’s How Your Company Can Get on Board. Bold title. I don’t think vibe coding as currently defined is the future. But, orchestrating AI tools is.

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