Daily Reading List – October 29, 2025 (#654)

What a wild year or so of tech changes. Cloud provider preferences aren’t the same, toolchains aren’t the same, and well-established jobs (like product manager) aren’t the same. Today’s reading list exemplifies that.

[blog] Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion. The fundamentals look good, and customers are trusting us to help them do their next big thing.

[article] Amazon faces a ‘fundamental’ shift in how AI startups spend on the cloud, internal documents show. Behind a paywall, but if you have access, it’s a good read about the shifting preferences of startups who look at a new style of tech provider. Backed up by public data here.

[article] 7 Must-Know Agentic AI Design Patterns. If you’ve been keeping an eye on this space, these won’t feel brand new. But still a useful overview of some important ideas.

[blog] Introducing the Jules extension for Gemini CLI. This feels like a big deal. Offload background work to Jules and stay in the flow within Gemini CLI.

[blog] The Role of a Product Manager in the Age of AI. Building-first culture may spark the most disruptive cultural change within companies in a decade.

[blog] Introducing Spring AI Agents and Spring AI Bench. The Spring team never rests. This looks like an interesting pair of new projects for those using agentic coding tools.

[blog] Gemini CLI Tips & Tricks. Speaking of AI coding tools, you’ll be an absolute pro after you apply many of these expert-level tips from Addy.

[blog] The “10x” Commandments of Highly Effective Go. Good specific advice on the Jetbrains site. This is obvious for Go devs, but much of it applies to any programming language.

[blog] How Model Armor can help protect your AI apps from prompt injections and jailbreaks. This is a model-agnostic and cloud-agnostic service that offers a handful of very important dimensions of protection for your AI models and apps.

[blog] Introducing Cursor 2.0 and Composer. Big update for the AI coding tool with the most momentum. Folks love Cursor, and this won’t change that. More from Simon on their unique coding model.

[blog] Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink. Are we missing hyperlinks as an obvious source of context for your agents?

[blog] Comparing Agent Frameworks: PydanticAI, LangChain 1.0 and Google ADK. Genuine praise and criticism for popular agent frameworks, including ours.

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