Daily Reading List – March 2, 2026 (#732)

Had a heat wave this weekend in SoCal, but I see many of my co-workers wearing three jackets and ear muffs on my calls today. I avoid mentioning San Diego weather during video chats so that my colleagues don’t hate me.

[blog] The Factory Model: How Coding Agents Changed Software Engineering. Fantastic piece with specifics on what’s changed (permanently) and what’s not. Use this as a blueprint for planning within your team. And hiring.

[blog] 9 Tips for Reducing API Latency in Agentic AI Systems. Deeper-than-expected advice here for being thoughtful with the APIs your AI agents depend on.

[article] Chip Huyen: To Build or Not to Build – When AI Can Do It All? You spent months building something and then a fan rebuilds it with AI in a weekend. The constraint moved upstream.

[article] In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control. As per the above post, these sorts of systems are going to be increasingly important as we steer our factory of agents.

[blog] Can AI agents build real Stripe integrations? We built a benchmark to find out. How well could an agent execute a core tasks against your platform? Love this. It tests the documentation and API of a system.

[article] Why Multi-Agent Systems Need Memory Engineering. Really useful info here. Think hard about how you store and access data/context/memory among a set of distributed agents.

[article] Developer experience at scale – lessons from Dropbox. It matters more than ever, and still can be hard to measure if you’re doing it right. Keep learning from others. I know I am.

[blog] From “Vibe Checks” to Continuous Evaluation: Engineering Reliable AI Agents. Big post, and strong guidance for those trying to ensure your AI agents are continuously evaluated and regressions are caught before production deployments.

[article] So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: How to Know If You Need One and How to Get the Role Right. Another deep post! This one ensures you’re thinking correctly about FDEs and when they make sense for your org.

[blog] Which Technology Service Providers Are Strategic To The Enterprise? Global and regional systems integrators know they have to pivot. AI changed their value proposition. But they’re deeply entrenched with clients, and will likely find new avenues of usefulness.

[blog] Developers Are Safe… Thanks to Corporate Red Tape. Is the AI transformation going to happen more slowly than we think, because big companies never pivot quickly? There’s some truth there. But this might be different.

[blog] Supercharge your AI agents: The New ADK Integrations Ecosystem. Our Agent Development Kit now has some great integrations to dev platforms you use.

[repo] Modern Go Guidelines. Here’s a Skill for Go developers. I’d like to see this sort of thing become common for every language and framework we use.

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