Daily Reading List – August 27, 2025 (#616)

I vibe coded an app today that uses our fancy new image generation model. My customer presentations are more interesting now (I think!) when I can create personalized apps and content for a customer.

[article] Google’s Gemini CLI Agent Comes to Zed. I’m running three different code editors now, which would have been absurd just a couple of years ago. Zed is pretty great, and now can incorporate agents like the Gemini CLI. Our post and Zed’s post cover it too.

[article] What happens when organizations display individual metrics vs team metrics? Good question. This research seems to show that team-based metrics drive better performance.

[blog] You Don’t Need a Bigger Platform Team, You Need a More Collaborative One. Speaking of working together, here’s a piece about a multiplayer mode for your platform efforts.

[article] IT, business leaders clash over cloud, data security. Maybe that dissatisfaction with cloud/AI/automation can be found later in the article. Supporting technology and security approaches don’t seem to be ready at these companies.

[blog] Everything I know about good API design. Useful stuff here on versioning, rate limits, authentication, and more.

[blog] APIs don’t make good MCP tools. I’m persuaded by these points. Just handing a pile of APIs to an agent doesn’t seem like an efficient thing to do.

[blog] This Week in Gemini CLI (vol. 3) 🚀. There are some good usability and productivity features in this latest drop.

[blog] How to Fix Your Context. This is from a couple months back, but I don’t think I saw it then. Or if I did, and had it in a reading list, I forgot about it. Either way, a helpful read.

[blog] Why Separate Databases? Explaining Like You’re Five. Premature optimization is always a danger. Do you need microservices, separate databases, and isolation everywhere? Not for many scenarios.

[blog] The 10 Steps for product AI generation with Gemini 2.5 Flash. Excellent content from Philipp that helps you design visually consistent images in an ecommerce situation. More advice from Googlers here.

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