Daily Reading List – February 10, 2026 (#718)

I’m heading to India on Friday and will be in Delhi and Bengaluru all of next week. Trying to prepare for that—demos, logistics, packing—while doing full days of “regular” work is quite the juggling act. “Smart Richard” would have taken a day off work to prepare, but alas, he rarely makes an appearance.

[article] What keeps AI-generated pull requests from getting merged into production? It’s not documentation gaps that are the biggest blocker. Seems to be testing and security concerns in AI-generated code submissions.

[article] Is AI killing open source? Provocative title, but thoughtful piece from Matt. There are conflicting forces at play and the future isn’t clear.

[blog] How we cut Vertex AI latency by 35% with GKE Inference Gateway. Big improvement, especially for this product’s scale.

[blog] You’re Not Taking On Enough Tech Debt. Haven’t seen this point of view before, but there’s at least some merit to it!

[article] Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt. Meanwhile, Java devs seem to be crushed under tech debt right now.

[blog] Write-Only Code. I need to update my own thinking on this, as Joseph is right about something here. We’re not going to need to review or even skim every line of generated code.

[blog] Decoded: How Google AI Studio Securely Proxies Gemini API Requests. This is a smart solution for these types of apps. Although a properly hardened production solution would be even more rigorous, as Guillaume points out.

[article] AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It. Some of this is self-inflicted, according the research, and some is mismatched expectations.

[article] The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most. The hunger to do more with better tools is making us ignore that internal alarm that says we’re doing too much.

[blog] Agentic Engineering. A better phrase than “vibe coding.” It’s more professional, and accurate. Related.

[blog] Go 1.26 is released. Many updates, including some difference-making performance improvements in garbage collection.

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