Daily Reading List – March 12, 2026 (#740)

It was a day. But we had a fun read-through of our Google Cloud Next developer keynote. I’m excited to see many of you in person soon!

[article] AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x. We’ve said the same thing publicly. There are tasks that have 3x or 10x productivity gains, but it’s not uniform across the whole day or entire value stream.

[article] CEOs think AI use is mandatory — but employees don’t agree, survey says. This story posts about the disconnect between execs and employees, but notice the blurb about middle managers. You don’t win that tier over, every initiative tends to die.

[article] Pity the developers who resist agentic coding. I wouldn’t use the word pity at this point. This article points out that devs are missing the thrill of really building at the speed of thought.

[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons report highlights current cloud threats. Even if the threats themselves don’t change (they do), notice how bad actors seamlessly switch to the ones getting less attention.

[blog] Introducing Replit Agent 4: Built for Creativity. How we work changed. Stop fighting it. Tools like Replit do a great job of showing what the future looks like.

[blog] What you need to know about the Gemini Embedding 2 model. This is new, but not getting the attention it deserves. This new embeddings model makes life much easier for those with a mix of data.

[blog] Human Insight, Amplified: How Forrester Is Reinventing Research For The AI Era. This seems like a good idea. Analyst firms need to rethink their research approach, and distribution. This addresses the latter.

[blog] Protecting cities with AI-driven flash flood forecasting. Great work from Microsoft Research to make this capability available to local communities.

[blog[ 5 design skills to sharpen in the AI era. From Figma, this seems like a useful list of areas to focus on.

[blog] Inference on GKE Private Clusters. Good use case! Can a Kubernetes cluster with no internet access still do AI inference? Yes, yes it can.

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