Daily Reading List – August 22, 2025 (#613)

If you read every word of today’s list, you might develop a cramp from sitting too long. There are a few meaty posts in here, but all worth a skim!

[blog] Building a Semantic Cache with BigQuery Vector Search. I learned something about the pattern, and technology options, from this post.

[blog] The reality of AI-Assisted software engineering productivity. Grab a hot beverage and settle in before reading this great new piece from Addy.

[blog] I Reviewed 50 Startup Pitch Decks. Here’s What They Keep Getting Wrong. If you keep struggling to land your internal proposal or external pitch, revisit your presentations. Good advice here.

[blog] Build a Blazing Fast API in Minutes with Hono and Cloud Run. I reflexively use Express whenever I build web stuff with Node, but I like how Hono looks.

[article] AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is ‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.’ Agree with the AWS CEO? Pretty sure that I do.

[article] Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately. Yowza, you might not be replacing junior engineers, but some are replacing those with fixed mindsets.

[article] Why Morgan Stanley open-sourced its app development tool. It’s great when open software comes from companies that solved a real internal need.

[blog] 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints. Sorry not sorry for this monster blog post that shows the tech you can use to implement over a hundred AI patterns.

[article] Making AI Agents Work For You (and Your Team). Helpful talk from Hannah that explores how AI agent teams might work, and how they should approach AI in the workflow.

[blog] Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis. AI doesn’t replace human thinking, but it can sure help it out. Here’s an SRE-like capability to quickly identify the root cause of a problem in your cloud system.

[blog] Caching Strategies for AI Agent Traffic. Caching is caching, but the patterns you apply can evolve. And it looks like AI agents will force us to shift our thinking.

[article] 6 Caching Strategies: Latency vs. Complexity Tradeoffs. More on caching. These are traditional patterns that have nothing to do with AI.

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