Daily Reading List – March 5, 2026 (#735)

Today got away from me. I just looked up and it’s 5pm. I’m taking a half-day tomorrow to head out on a short vacation, so expect an earlier-than-usual reading list publication.

[article] Google ADK Opens the Door to AI Agents That Work Inside Your DevOps Toolchain. When you can build agents that easily connect to your most important dev tooling, you open up a lot of possibilities for automation.

[article] You Should Take That “Boring” Meeting. Apparently we underestimate how interesting a “boring” meeting can be. Maybe?

[article] An ode to craftsmanship in software development. I get you. Maybe that beautifully designed algorithm or flawless project structure was never the art of software.

[blog] Grow your own way: Introducing native support for custom metrics in GKE. Autoscaling is amazing, but you should be able to trigger it based on your own metrics. Now you can.

[blog] Three AI Blind Spots That Cost You Developers. No one will find our use your product correctly if you describe it using weird corporate talk. Are you writing for humans and agents right now?

[article] Does using AI to code come at the cost of learning? Good post. We’re not doing deep learning if we rush through an exercise with AI doing it all. Maybe that’s fine for a subset of tasks, but recognize when you need to really absorb something.

[blog] Integrate NotebookLM with Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity or Other Agents with MCP. Creative use of private APIs! I don’t think we officially support this scenario, but life finds a way.

[blog] A Monorepo Is NOT a Monolith. If you’re using a monorepo for all your code, does that mean you have a monolithic, tightly-coupled system? It does not.

[article] Does AGENTS.md Actually Help Coding Agents? Apparently LLM-generated instructions don’t help nearly as much as human-written ones.

[blog] The ultimate Nano Banana prompting guide. These are great tips for how to structure prompts to our image model.

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