Daily Reading List – February 11, 2026 (#719)

Today’s reading list had a lot of pieces containing direct truth we need to hear. The professional advice was solid!

[article] Designing Effective Multi-Agent Architectures. This article says its not about craftier prompts, but smarter systems that scale agents through collaborative architectures.

[blog] What to grow. Short post, big wisdom. If you look beyond coding for places to grow skills, you might find yourself thinking more about running a product or business.

[blog] Helping Your Agent Understand Google: Trying the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server. Very tangible example here of how much better the results are from an agentic tool once you ground it with a good source.

[blog] Product Coaching and AI. Wow. The experts at human product coaching are now advocating for product creators to use foundational models as their personal coaches. Not enough product people have managers who develop them.

[blog] It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres. Straight talk. Odds are you don’t need those dozen specialized database engines. You’re fine with one.

[blog] Delivering a secure, open, and sovereign digital world. Our bets over the past five years are paying off as people around the world now have some of the most unique and relevant options for sovereign cloud solutions.

[blog] Getting the main thing right. Sounds true to me. Those who crush it at work are often doing the “main thing” better and more often than others. That “main thing” may not be what you love, but it’s what matters (right now).

[blog] Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program now available, a new path to building AI agents at scale. Consider baking some of this in your own learning journey for AI. News coverage here.

[article] How to advance a tech career without managing. Let’s be honest, it’s harder to move up in an organization as an individual contributor. But not impossible! I’m surrounded by many folks who have taken that path.

[blog] 5 Years of Cloud Run: What I’d Tell Myself on Day 1. Cloud Run is low touch and you don’t need to make a “Cloud Run” app. But there are good things to know.

[blog] AI Can Build Your Flutter App, But It Can’t Architect It. Sometimes the app you get from AI prompting is right at 50 users, but would fall apart at 50,000. That said, I’m seeing more ways (MCP tools, Skills) to bring best practices in from the start!

[blog] The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail. It’s not valuable when it’s always green. What a great point!

[blog] WebMCP is available for early preview. This is all about giving structured tools that browsers can use to interact with websites.

[article] Invest Your Political Capital. I’ve gotten wiser about this as I’ve gotten older. Are you constantly stashing goodwill, and cashing it in at strategic moments?

[blog] Making Gemini CLI extensions easier to use. Smart idea to ensure extensions work correctly right away.

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