Daily Reading List – December 4, 2025 (#678)

Do you have those work days where you do nothing but context switch in every meeting? That was me. Seemingly every meeting was on a different topic. I’m probably going to drove home from the office in silence to let my brain reset.

[article] Seven coding domains no developer really understands. Sure, somewhere out there is confident in one or more of these. But most of us are faking and relieved that AI can help.

[blog] Building Conversational Genomics. What a terrific blog post. It clearly outlines a pain point for researchers—context-switching genomic workflows—and how a reliable AI solution improves the situation.

[article] AI Agents Need Guardrails. Seems like this “governance” topic is at fever pitch right now. Maybe we’re at that stage of adoption with agents where enough is going on that risk management becomes a real concern.

[blog] Everyone Is Wrong About NotebookLM. Sheesh, this is better than anything we’ve written ourselves about this product. Is it the thinking partner we’ve been searching for?

[article] One Year of MCP: Looking Back, and Forward. Nobody thinks this is a perfect specification/API, but it’s undoubtably become something that really matters.

[blog] Shape the future with Google Summer of Code 2026! This program has been rolling for 20+ years, and helps a whole new set of people get involved in open source projects. Consider joining in.

[article] AWS launches Kiro powers with Stripe, Figma, and Datadog integrations for AI-assisted coding. The “LLM eats too many tokens figuring out MCP tools to use” is a real issue. AWS is trying to get around that with a different approach.

[blog] Replit is delivering enterprise-grade vibe coding with Google Cloud. These folks are doing an amazing job satisfying today’s builder needs. And now they’re betting more on Google Cloud as their partner.

[blog] KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud. I found this to be a useful summary of the high notes from the recently completed KubeCon.

[blog] Building an Image Annotation Pipeline with Flutter, Firebase, and Gemini 3 (Nano Banana Pro). Good example of what we can build now, quickly. Concepts that would have felt “out of our league” just a couple of years ago are approachable now.

[blog] Cursor Alternatives in 2026. Good list of agentic IDEs that you can try out right now. All of these bring something interesting to the table.

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