Daily Reading List – February 26, 2026 (#730)

I open the Gemini CLI at least a couple times a day, and it seems I have a waiting update every time. This thing gets refreshed constantly! I can’t tell if I love that or want us to slow down 🙂

[article] Packaging Expertise: How Claude Skills Turn Judgment into Artifacts. “Expertise transfer” is a smart way to label Agent Skills. That said, we’ll need to see how good we get at keeping these up to date; otherwise they atrophy like other doc sources.

[blog] Easily Build a Local MCP Server in Java with a Skill inside Gemini CLI. My “skills” FOMO is off the charts right now. Need to take time to build a few before the week is out. Guillaume does a good job showing how to use one to build MCP servers.

[article] The engineeringification of everything. It’s not just you; engineering is everywhere and expanding to all types of roles.

[article] Humans Are for Ideas, AI Is for Execution. I mean, I use AI to help me think through ideas, but the point here is valid. We’re the source of real thought!

[blog] Building a Memory-Augmented Supply Chain Agent with ADK, AlloyDB and Memory Bank. Agents with memory. They’re important. Read this post from Abi for a sense of the tiers of memory and how to bring them into your agents.

[blog] 5 More Things I’d Tell Myself on Day 1 of using Cloud Run. These are so great. Sara calls out a few things I didn’t know about, and I’ve been using Cloud Run for years.

[blog] What’s so hard about continuous learning? This is for models, not people. Could we keep running new input through a training pipeline? Yes. But there’s risk and quality concerns with doing that.

[blog] New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More. Cool to see enterprise software vendors embracing things like MCP and A2A in their products.

[blog] A tour of Google Gemini libraries and tools. There’s not one tool or SDK to rule them all. That’s ok, as there are reasons to use each. I can imagine needing a Skill though, to help my AI agents make better choices on when to use each.

[blog] Stop Using /init for AGENTS.md. You might be getting whiplash from the different advice flying around. But we’re learning together live, so try and absorb the latest thinking.

[blog] Top Questions Answered: Getting Started with Antigravity. I couldn’t have answered all these, and it’s great to see what the community cares about.

[article] jQuery Releases v4: First Major Version in Almost 10 Years. A reminder that frameworks stick around, and even if you’ve moved on, millions of people still download this one every week!

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