Daily Reading List – July 18, 2025 (#590)

I had a good day. Next week I’m in New York City for some customer meetings and offsites. Expect the same rhythm of reading lists because this is now a habit!

[blog] Vibe coding and the silent AI war inside tech companies. Good point here that the AI acceleration isn’t across all tasks. We’ll get some things done much faster, others, not so much.

[blog] BigQuery’s New Cost Controls Are Here to Help. “Unlimited” is a bad default quota amount for a billable service. JK points out some new BigQuery default quotas that’ll help you avoid runaway bills.

[blog] Giants awaken. Google Cloud GeminiCLI, AWS Kiro, developer experience and the need to ship and keep shipping. James at Redmonk looks at a couple of hyperscalers flexing their developer chops.

[blog] Back to The Future: Evaluating AI Agents on Predicting Future Events. There’s no existing data to train on for future events, so can you use AI to predict what’s going to happen?

[blog] MCP: Bringing mashups back! Love this. Agents and MCP make it simple to combine disparate APIs in new and funky ways.

[article] Open Source Is Too Important To Dilute. Dan says that true open source is worth defending, and we can’t water down the definition with these not-really-open definitions.

[blog] AI Agents, the New Frontier for LLMs. Folks on my team have been producing such exceptionally good content about AI. Not just the what, but the why and how.

[blog] Building an automated GitLab Merge Request Review Agent with Gemini CLI. Good example of a background task (CI pipeline) that can make use of an agentic tool.

[article] Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users. I feel for them. It’s hard to predict usage, it’s not cheap to serve, and competition is fierce.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our Big Sleep agent makes a big leap, and other AI news. AI is foiling attempts to exploit vulnerabilities. That’s wild. Also get a roundup of security links.

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