Daily Reading List – January 30, 2026 (#711)

I haven’t figured out what topic I want to explore or which demo to build this weekend, but those autonomous agents using at Moltbook may have already taken over the world by tomorrow anyway.

[blog] Performance shouldn’t be an afterthought: Hardening the AI-assisted SDLC. Great advice from Karl, and it shouldn’t be THAT difficult to ensure the AI tools make this a priority from the start of the project.

[blog] The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding. Very thought-provoking piece, and one that engineers (and their managers) should take to heart.

[blog] Spanner in 2025: Innovations powering intelligent, multi-model AI applications. The most powerful database service keeps getting better. Good roundup of last year’s upgrades.

[blog] Spring AI Agentic Patterns (Part 5): Building Interoperable Agents with the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol. I’m happy to see good support for A2A in the Spring ecosystem. When things like this happen, protocols take off.

[article] Get started with Angular: Introducing the modern reactive workflow. Good introduction, and modern AI tools make it much less scary to try it all out.

[blog] Beyond the Chatbot: A Blueprint for Trustable AI. This is a boring headline for a badass use case. Real time intelligence at a race track? Let’s go.

[article] AI is changing how work gets done. Here’s how CIOs can help. Are CIOs leading the AI change at companies or going with the flow?

[blog] Introducing Google Cloud Vertex AI Extensions for .NET. You’re not stuck with only one cloud option, C# devs. We’ve got new .NET 10 support in Cloud Run functions, and a new library to make it easier to add Gemini to your app.

[blog] Zero trust architecture for platform engineers: Securing modern developer platforms. Read this for a take on many of the key areas to focus on for a secure architecture that verifies everything.

[blog] I Tried Letting Antigravity Build An Agent For Me. Here’s What Actually Happened. I enjoy reading these. See where people stumbled, or found delight, is very helpful in knowing where to improves products/docs/messaging.

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