Daily Reading List – March 4, 2026 (#734)

Big reading list today, without any particular theme. Lots of AI stuff of course, but from many different angles.

[article] Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software. Oh no, is AI killing software? No, it’s changing who can do what and giving many software companies a new lease on life.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google approaches critical security topics, from fundamentals to AI. New threats out there, but also new (and timeless) approaches to tackling them. Good insights here.

[blog] Generate your own Cinematic Video Overviews in NotebookLM. I’m very excited to see cinematic versions of super boring research topics!

[blog] Meta gave React its own foundation. But it’s not letting go just yet. I’ve learned a lot about this space after taking on our Open Source Program Office at Google. Just because a project is in a foundation doesn’t mean control of key aspects are given away by the creator.

[blog] How to build GenAI apps for resilience with TypeScript. How do you build AI apps that don’t tip over when a model is unavailable? Karl looks at backoffs, circuit breakers, and fail-fast front-ends.

[blog] Modernize your apps with the new Cloud Run universal OS only runtime. This is a great description of the capability to ship a binary (not code, not dockerfiles) to Cloud Run for deployment.

[article] Don’t become an Engineering Manager. I personally wouldn’t move farther away from being hands-on with tech right now, regardless of role.

[blog] The Golden Ratio of Manager to IC. 50:1 ratio? No way. Flatter orgs are the rage for valid reasons, but you’re not managing people effectively at this ratio.

[blog] One SQL Query, Three Continents: BigQuery’s Global Queries Just Changed the Game. My running hot-takes are that you have too many apps (replace most with APIs only), and you move too much data around. This one addresses the latter.

[blog] Announcing CEL-expr-python: the Common Expression Language in Python, now open source. Looks useful for those validating data, enforcing policies, or evaluating expressions dynamically.

[blog] Meeting you where you are at: Gemini CLI on AWS CloudShell. Yes, the Gemini CLI is open source and lightweight so running it within AWS’s embedded is entirely possible. Cool to see.

[blog] Death Of The Knowledge Worker: The 6-Step Shift To Become Irreplaceable And Stop Trading Time For Money. Is the way we spend our time fundamentally changing? The percentage allocations here are worth flipping.

[blog] Serverless A2A Swarms on Cloud Run: Secure Multi-Agent Orchestration. Admittedly, I haven’t built out an A2A scenario yet. But reading posts like this makes me more confident that I can do it.

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