Daily Reading List – July 25, 2025 (#595)

Landed late last night and had a two hour talk + demo this morning at 7am. I’m really good at scheduling. Next week I’m on vacation (staycation with the kids), but will probably still do reading lists each day. Enjoy your weekend!

[blog] Google Gemini CLI Cheatsheet. Many, many of you have downloaded and tried this agentic CLI. But what can you do with it? I like Philipp’s cheatsheet.

[blog] Model Context Protocol (MCP) explained: An FAQ. Some good Q&A from our friends over at Vercel. This is mostly the positive perspective, but still quite useful.

[blog] Exploring the Evolution of Google’s Community Forum: A Comparison of Old and New features. We’ve got a revamped community environment for everyone who builds with Google technologies. Looks great.

[article] Stop Prompting, Start Designing: 5 Agentic AI Patterns That Actually Work. Some good visualizations here that might help you understand some agent patterns you’ve heard of.

[blog] Mastering agentic workflows with ADK: Sequential agents. Here’s an agent pattern in practice. Learn how to build an agent that runs in a step-by-step sequence.

[blog] Zombie Burnout: A New Way to Think About the Restless Exhaustion of Modern Life. Burnout doesn’t just come from overwork. it comes from work that doesn’t inspire you any longer. Good advice here.

[blog] Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past. Wow, this is rad. AI trained for Latin (but possible to do for other languages) to help historians understand ancient inscriptions.

[article] How Rust-Based Zed Built World’s Fastest AI Code Editor. Many (most?) of the AI editors and tools out there are based on Visual Studio Code, or a fork. Zed is something different.

[blog] New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability. Standing up and managing AI infrastructure can be a lot of work. I’ve seen folks struggle with it. This updated experience in Google Cloud looks like a big step forward.

[blog] A Practical Guide to Multimodal Data Analytics. Jeff goes deep into this unify analysis of multimodal content. It’s pretty cool that you can use SQL and Python here.

[article] How Elicitation in MCP Brings Human-in-the-Loop to AI Tools. Here’s a new feature of MCP that you should take a look at.

[article] Is Google Cloud winning the AI era? Winning takes many forms, but we’re doing some things right at the moment.

[blog] Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities. Oof. Rough story, but it can happen. Community input is great, but you have to be careful on those PRs.

[blog] Practical Gemini CLI: Bring your own system instruction. Learn all about overriding the system prompt of the Gemini CLI. The extensibility here is powerful.

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