Daily Reading List – July 29, 2025 (#597)

Another vacation day with the kids, this time to Sea World. Before everyone woke up, I got some productive reading time.

[blog] Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI. This model has some amazing features, including the generation of videos with audio.

[article] What is First Principles Thinking? We can rush through life with shallow understanding of too much. This article is a good reminder to acquire a deeper knowledge of what we’re dealing with.

[blog] Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding. Good reasoning, centered on code review behavior, learning moments, and (lack of) evolving thoughts. I don’t agree with all of this, but it’s worthwhile to noodle on.

[article] The importance of memory for AI. This was relevant to the piece above, as I do think our AI tools can “learn” from mistakes over the long term. If you have and use memory effectively.

[article] Employees brace for AI-driven change: survey. Good idea. Even if you don’t think it will affect your job (it will), it’ll affect your industry.

[blog] Mastering agentic workflows with ADK for Java: Parallel agents. I’m learning a few things from this series of posts. Move from abstract to tangible understanding of these agent patterns.

[blog] Mastering agentic workflows with ADK: Loop agents. This is a type I haven’t built myself yet, and appreciated seeing in action.

[article] Product Manager vs. Product Owner: Why Teams Get These Roles Wrong. I’ve done both jobs, and remember speaking about it a decade ago. Sometimes I think we over-think this. Having distinct roles here (versus tasks within a role) creates communication breakdowns.

[blog] The global endpoint offers improved availability for Anthropic’s Claude on Vertex AI. Instead of being pinned to a region (which you may need to do for sovereignty or perf reasons), this new global endpoint provides pay-as-you-go access to Claude wherever there is capacity.

[article] Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users. I feel for them. Amazon needed to immediately rate limit their new agentic IDE, our Gemini CLI got hammered. But yeah, users are justified in being grouchy when companies back down from prior limits.

[blog] Exploring the new BigQuery Data Engineering Agent. Get the data and clear instructions needed to go hands on with this AI-assisted data science experience.

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