Daily Reading List – December 22, 2025 (#690)

Today was the first and last day of my workweek. I’m off through January 2nd, and will likely publish a Reading List here and there. But not every day until I’m back on the 5th. Enjoy your Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) break!

[blog] One weird trick to manage engineering crises; stakeholders love it. Terrific post. You need to interleave tactical and strategic wins while being transparent with stakeholders about priorities and progress.

[blog] My LLM coding workflow going into 2026. Feel like you’re still winging it with AI? You’re not alone. But Addy’s workflow might form the basis for doing it better.

[article] Kubernetes 1.35 “Timbernetes” Introduces Vertical Scaling. There are a few features here worth keeping an eye on.

[article] AI Trends for 2026. I don’t think most would look favorably upon their “AI predictions” from twelve months ago. But Charlie did pretty well, and has opinions about what 2026 might hold.

[blog] Google Research 2025: Bolder breakthroughs, bigger impact. This is frankly a breathtaking number of accomplishments in a single year.

[blog] 10 Things Developers Want from their Agentic IDEs in 2025. So good. Here’s a roundup of what you should expect to be standard fare next year.

[article] Building AI agents the safe way. What’s the “boring, necessary engineering” you need to do to have a secure AI agent strategy? Matt takes a look.

[blog] 40 of our most helpful AI tips from 2025. Good ones! If you’re still bopping around with gimmicky uses of AI, get some inspiration from this list.

[blog] 2026 vibe coding tool comparison. I’d imagine that a few other tools will make lists like this in the near future. But in the meantime, this is a good look at Replit, v0, Lovable, and Bolt.

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