Daily Reading List – March 11, 2026 (#739)

Sometimes a different model really does help. I was building an agent last night for fun, and couldn’t get it to do what I wanted. I upgraded to the latest Gemini model and now it works like a charm. That was the only change!

[blog] Welcoming Wiz to Google Cloud: Redefining security for the AI era. I’m excited that we closed this acquisition and now have this talented team with their differentiated security platform. I’m not sure anyone has a security stack quite like ours.

[article] Andrej Karpathy’s new open source ‘autoresearch’ lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications. Besides coding (which I don’t get to do every day), my main use of AI is for research. Autoresearch could absolutely be a transformative thing.

[blog] The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering. Fantastic post that articulates each progressive stage of using AI in engineering, and what you gain from each.

[blog] Plan mode is now available in Gemini CLI. Great functionality added to the Gemini CLI. Do safe, read-only mode work before jumping into action.

[blog] Cost-Effective AI with Ollama, GKE GPU Sharing, and vCluster. As I see people struggle with token costs or model availability, I’m definitely of the mind that there’s clear cases where you want to run models yourself.

[blog] When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough. It’s about platforms, and how you’re serving AI functionality at scale in large companies.

[article] 10 Hacks Every NotebookLM User Should Know. Great list of ways to personalize the experience and learn on your terms.

[blog] From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact. This was a turning point for AI, and we may look back at this as a pivotal moment.

[article] How to Quash Your Fear of Messing Up. What causes you to hesitate? How can we think about risk differently? Read this for advice.

[blog] Best Practices for Secure Error Handling in Go. Even if you don’t write code in Go, you’ll learn a few useful things about avoiding security issues with your error handling.

[article] Layoffs, cost-cutting shatters IT worker confidence. Understandable! Tech workers faces a lot of simultaneous stresses.

[blog] Bring Your Database Tools to the Agent Skill Ecosystem. Very cool new capability to turn MCP toolsets into Agent Skills. Worth trying this out.

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