Daily Reading List – October 16, 2025 (#650)

Good day here in Austin. I like talking to folks who have their own perspectives on what AI and the current tech landscape looks like. Helps me pop my own ideological bubble!

[article] Inside Google’s AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search). It’s actually a podcast episode, but here’s the landing page. It’s long, but I listened to the whole thing today, and it was a terrific lesson on being user focused and scaling products.

[article] Where do developers actually want AI to support their work? Good topic. Just because AI *can* help everywhere, doesn’t mean developers want it to. Yet.

[blog] Bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy. AI shops are showing their focus areas right now. While we’re doing fun consumer AI with our models, our most meaningful work is happening in the sciences.

[blog] The ROI Pendulum: Build Vs. Buy In The Age Of AI. Is it about taking back some control? Your AI strategy should be like most others with tech: buy commodity, build differentiation.

[blog] 10 years of genomics research at Google. Related. This isn’t a side project here. It’s core to the work we do.

[article] Rethinking operations in an agentic AI world. Fundamental concepts may remain the same, but the implementation is changing. James takes a look at a fresh way to look at ops when dealing with agent workloads.

[blog] Stop Guessing and Start Benchmarking Your AI Prompts. Writing prompts doesn’t have to be art. There can be a science to it where you have measurable proof as to what works and what doesn’t.

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