Daily Reading List – October 8, 2025 (#644)

Flying home after a great day with friends at Comcast and talking about AI assisted engineering. Everyone is looking for the playbook for effectively landing AI in their org. Maybe I’ll write a book about it 🙂

[blog] Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants. A few months ago, our CEO asked me to run a few long-running engineering experiments with my team. Here’s what we learned from using the full spectrum of today’s AI coding tools to get work done.

[blog] Stitching with the new Jules API. I don’t think we’re just going to improve the existing toolchain. Instead, a new toolchain is emerging where you simply work differently.

[blog] The State of CI/CD in 2025: Key Insights from the Latest JetBrains Survey. What do folks use, are they using AI in CI/CD (answer: no), and why do folks use more than one tool? Answers here.

[blog] Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions. This is a huge capability that brings all sorts of data and functionality into your agentic CLI.

[article] To scale agentic AI, Notion tore down its tech stack and started fresh. Bravo. Sometimes you need to reset, not refactor.

[article] Kubernetes for agentic apps: A platform engineering perspective. While I’m extremely bullish on lightweight platforms for hosting agentic apps, there’s absolutely a place for Kubernetes in the mix. Abdel makes a good case.

[article] How to write nonfunctional requirements for AI agents. I haven’t thought much about this, but sure, there are going to be some adjustments to what requirements you gather for AI apps.

[blog] Expanding access to Opal, our no-code AI mini-app builder. When I tried this tool, it wasn’t what I expected. But it’s an interesting way to build a new style of app.

[blog] Not Another Workflow Builder. LangChain isn’t interested in adding to the pile of visual workflow builders. We’re back to arguing workflows versus agents again too!

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