Daily Reading List – August 28, 2025 (#617)

I’m often grateful for all the individual contributors I work with, but today I was extra thankful to observe so many good managers in action. Management is often a thankless task. But the good ones expertly advocate for their staff, set smart priorities, and lead by example. We’ve got that in spades.

[blog] Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development. Scattering of thoughts, but those who pay attention to many dimensions of our industry often have genuinely interesting perspectives about AI.

[blog] Developer Experience at Pinterest: The Journey to PinConsole. Here’s a good piece on the path towards an internal developer platform, its value, and where to start.

[blog] Run Gemini anywhere, including on-premises, with Google Distributed Cloud. Huge deal. Get this frontier model in your local data center. News here as well.

[article] Don’t Ship Your Pitch Deck to Your Website. Here’s How to Translate Your Story for Customers. Build a more authentic message and don’t hide behind corporate-speak or vagaries. That’s one takeaway I had from this article.

[article] AI agents spark mix of anticipation, skepticism and fear: Workday. Makes sense. It’s important to put agents into the spots where employees actually find them useful.

[article] How to avoid the risks of rapidly deploying AI agents. Seems directly relevant to the above article. Make good choices.

[blog] GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot. What you do want rapidly deployed is your infrastructure. This new underlying platform gives you dramatically faster pod scheduling and overall scaling.

[article] Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report. This landscape has gotten interesting!

[article] LLM System Design and Model Selection. Nice writeup with tons of questions and dimensions to consider when choosing an LLM and LLM-based system architecture.

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