Daily Reading List – October 15, 2025 (#649)

Flying to Austin right now for my last trip of this wacky run of five weeks or so with travel. I’ll be doing a keynote at Cognizant’s big annual conference and also slipping out to Waco to see my kiddo in college.

[blog] Introducing Veo 3.1 and advanced capabilities in Flow. Each of these new capabilities could be transformative in the hands of a creative person. Or even someone like me who pretends to be creative.

[blog] Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system. Color me interested. Might this be a better way to have some persistent memory between coding sessions, better than dumping sessions to Markdown files?

[blog] Say hello to a new level of interactivity in Gemini CLI. Kick into other interactive terminal sessions—think opening a file with vim—without ever leaving your agentic CLi? Love it.

[blog] Leveling up your deployment pipelines. Some insights into adding more features to your deployment pipelines.

[blog] Chaos engineering on Google Cloud: Principles, practices, and getting started. Not a new idea, but still useful to re-learn some of the core ideas around rehearsing for the worst case scenario.

[blog] Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos. This amazing model is showing up everywhere in Google products and services.

[article] How to Be a Great Coach—Even When You’re Busy. Nobody is too busy to help others grow. I refuse to believe it. How can you coach well when you’ve got a fairly packed calendar? Here’s some advice.

[blog] Gemini Code Assist brings enterprise-grade AI code reviews to GitHub. This GitHub app is used by many to do code reviews and more. But it’s been limited to github.com repos. Now it works with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and on-prem GitHub Enterprise Server repos.

[blog] AI Agent Benchmark Compendium. Wow, here’s a breakdown of 50 modern benchmarks and where to use them.

[blog] How to add MCP Servers to Gemini CLI with Docker MCP Toolkit. Handy integration for those that are invested in the Docker ecosystem.

[article] Zoom dooms the developer’s afternoon. It’s not Zoom’s fault alone, but the fact that it’s super easy to set up virtual meetings that constantly interrupt developers.

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