Did you learn anything new today? Besides what I learned from reading the items below, I also got more insight into spec-driven development by trying my boss’ framework, Conductor. Pretty cool. I also got some fresh ideas about the AI SLDC after talking to some smart co-workers.
[article] The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation. From McKinsey. This summary offers some insight into who is doing what.
[article] How to Make a Seemingly Impossible Leadership Decision. Some useful advice here. I’m learning that most decisions are reversible, and overthinking those causes unnecessary stress.
[blog] From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier. I found this post very exciting, and Dr Fei-Fei Li is leading some fascinating work into how AI will change how we interact with the world (real and virtual).
[paper] Context Engineering: Sessions & Memory. Here’s a completely free, ungated paper that packed with advice for those building stateful agents. 72 pages of goodness.
[article] AI is changing what it means to be a software engineer. This comes up a lot in my conversations with tech folks. What’s the job going to look like? How should we think about junior staff? What skills matter most?
[blog] How To Make Your Writing More Persuasive: 4 Secrets From Copywriting. Do these things if you want people to pay attention to what you write.
[blog] Running high-scale reinforcement learning (RL) for LLMs on GKE. Many (most?) won’t need to do at-scale reinforcement learning, but those that do will care about this stack a lot!
[blog] An Alternative Chat UI Layout. Do we need to rethink “chat” now that there’s more data stuffed into the back-and-forth conversation? Should “thinking” and other processing steps be separated out? I like the ideas here.
[article] Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun. Glad to hear it. Software development should be fun, but it takes work to set up a developer experience that makes it feel that way.
[blog] Progressive Delivery, the book, is here. Great topic, and glad to see this now available for everyone to learn more about this key idea.
[article] Agentic coding with Google Jules. Who knows what form all of these tools take in the year+ ahead, but there’s a distinct value to having AI that can do background work for you.
[article] How much does AI improve development speed in enterprise settings? Sobering findings, also some actionable insights from this study.
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