Congrats to my Seattle friends for having a Super Bowl winner. So-so game, but terrific outcome for their fans. One of the years, I’ll live in a city that wins any sort of championship.
[blog] The hidden danger of shipping fast. I like the advice here. If you’re shipping faster than your customers can absorb it, don’t slow down. But rethink how you share and position updates.
[blog] Tutorial: Mastering the Google Developer Knowledge MCP Server. This is such an outstanding walkthrough of this grounding-source for developers. You don’t have to be building AI apps to take advantage of always-fresh knowledge sources.
[blog] Death of Software. Nah. We’re going to need more, and different software. If you look to the past, you see all sorts of disruptive tech transitions that ushered in new, exciting eras.
[article] 3 Signs It’s Time for Your Next Chapter. These speak to me. I leave jobs when I hit my ceiling (learning-wise, level-wise) and feel to comfortable in the role.
[article] OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents. If you’re helping make buying decisions at your company, you’re going to be awash in options fo agent development and management.
[blog] AppGen Is Eating Low-Code — What It Means To You. Classic low-code platforms weren’t for developers. I never met one who wanted to use one. But modern AI app building stacks? Devs are all over them. Do or die moment for the classic vendors!
[blog] OTLP everywhere: Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol metrics. If you don’t know what OpenTelemetry is, ask your platform team. I’m glad we’ve added such rich support to Google Cloud.
[blog] Skills Are the Most Underrated Feature in Agentic AI. I need to jump on this bandwagon. It’ll probably happen once I sit down and build a few of these and see the light.
[blog] Sequential Attention: Making AI models leaner and faster without sacrificing accuracy. We’re learning more every day. Here’s a new approach from Google Research that you apply during the training stage.
[article] IDEcline: How the world’s most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight. What is the IDE now? Not necessarily where the work happens. It’s where you coordinate and verify work done elsewhere.
[blog] Access public data insights faster: Data Commons MCP is now hosted on Google Cloud. Talk about an amazing grounding source! Bring the trusted Data Commons into your AI tools using our new hosted MCP server.
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