Daily Reading List – February 17, 2026 (#723)

Short list today, as I was mostly occupied at our developer event in Delhi, and had little time to read. Tomorrow, on to Bangalore and more fun discussions.

[blog] How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt. Do devs need to slow down to avoid crushing cognitive debt that prevents their best work and harms the systems in the long term?

[article] Google Antigravity is the best fork of Microsoft VS Code and it’s not even close. I’m remarkably biased, but this doesn’t seem like a wacky opinion.

[blog] Run Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime on Google Cloud Run. Take Mistral’s small model and run in on a pay-as-you-go serverless stack.

[article] Open source maintainers are being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’. This headline would have made zero sense just twelve months ago.

[article] After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting. Maybe some of this autonomous agent stuff was oversold and isn’t (yet) as worthy of the given hype?

[blog] Gemini Interactions API: A Unified Interface for Models and Agents. This is a very powerful API and one that lets you offload a lot of machinery you had to maintain yourself.

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