Daily Reading List – February 3, 2026 (#713)

I’ve got a customer presentation tomorrow, and I love that deeply personalizing a demo now takes 30 minutes instead of hours. A couple of prompts to Google Antigravity, some light supervision, and I’ve got a nice little system deployed to the cloud.

[blog] Gemini Interactions API — One interface for models and agents. So much functionality hiding behind a single API endpoint! Mete does a great job explaining why Gemini model endpoints are capable of more than you think.

[blog] Automatic programming. If you’re in control and setting your software vision, it’s not vibe coding.

[article] Vercel rebuilt v0 to tackle the 90% problem: Connecting AI-generated code to existing production infrastructure, not prototypes. The vibe-to-production pipeline will be fascinating to watch in 2026. How do you build it right the first time, or harden on the way to deployment?

[blog] Beyond Prompt Engineering: Using Agent Skills in Gemini CLI. Excellent post that shows off a very important scenario: feeding up-to-date guidance and info to your agent.

[blog] Here’s how to tune into the Winter Olympics with Google. I’m more of a Summer Olympics person, but there’s always something compelling in any of these games. Following along on Youtube, Search, and Maps.

[blog] Is AI Disrupting Product Development? I liked the table in here that showed PM activities and where AI would have a big impact.

[article] 9 Trends Shaping Work in 2026 and Beyond. All these are quite interesting to me, and not the typical low-effort lists I see on this topic.

[blog] Predictive Analytics Reimagined with BigQuery Conversational Analytics. If you can access the data, you can now get answers from it. That’s a wild shift from even a few months ago.

[article] Snowflake debuts Cortex Code, an AI agent that understands enterprise data context. Sense-making products will be all the rage this year.

[article] OpenAI launches new macOS app for agentic coding. Makes sense. Everyone wants to have an IDE-like thing right now!

[blog] Hear more about interactive world models in our latest podcast. World models are WILD. Listen and watch this podcast episode to see what Project Genie is already capable of.

[blog] What We Got Right with Cloud Foundry. This platform was absolutely ahead of its time. Cloud Foundry got so many things right. And also adapted too slowly to what people wanted next!

[blog] Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work. This links to an interesting paper that shows multi-agent systems performing well on parallel tasks, but degrading on sequential ones.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: 5 top CISO priorities in 2026. Good list and worthwhile areas to ensure your security team focuses on.

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