Daily Reading List – February 16, 2026 (#722)

I made it to Delhi without issue and took Sunday to adjust. Today, I was at our office in the area for an hackathon, and meetings with folks on my team. Tomorrow, we have our first big event of the week.

[article] It’s Time to Redesign How Product Teams Work. The types of changes called out here apply to many types of jobs, not just product team ones.

[article] Finding the Holy Grail of AI Agent UIs: From AI-Orchestrated Development to A2UI. Can we get away from writing so much frontend code? This article offers a good analysis of this problem space and solution.

[blog] Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House. Great stuff here from Angie. You can take your ball and go home, or you can make the game work in your favor. Open source maintainers should commit to the latter.

[blog] 3 Ways to Stop Wasting Your 1:1s With Your Manager. Great advice. Don’t just share status updates in your 1:1s. Bring professional development and a future focus to these chats.

[blog] Building an Autonomous Infra Agent using Vertex AI, ADK, and Google Managed remote MCP. Here’s a journey for building an agent that can stop, resize, and restart VMs on your behalf.

[blog] The Final Bottleneck. I’m glad that smart people are wrestling with this new AI reality. Nobody truly knows all the implications, and we need more people to think out loud.

[blog] State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle. How are designers feeling about the state we’re in? According to this latest Figma survey, pretty darn good.

[blog] Skills in ADK: On-Demand Instructions for your Agents. Excellent post that explains how to use Skills in your agent, and some good techniques for loading them correctly.

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