Daily Reading List – March 13, 2026 (#741)

A little throwaway tweet yesterday somehow turned into my most viral thing, maybe ever. I don’t understand social media. But it was also an awesome reminder that many people have no idea what the AI on their phones, email client, and corporate systems already does!

[blog] A2A Protocol Ships v1.0: Production-Ready Standard for Agent-to-Agent Communication. Congrats to the team here. A few things got better in this release, and I expect it to continue getting adopted within products and by developers.

[blog] BigQuery pipe syntax by example. Lots of examples here, and you can try out this SQL alternative in our free BigQuery sandbox.

[blog] How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era. I liked this take. If you’re in OSS, you already have a zero-trust approach to contributions. Who cares where the code comes from? This is what Daniela is looking for.

[article] WTF does a product manager do? (and why engineers should care). Good post. What a PM does hasn’t changed a ton, but the way they do it has. Or at least should!

[article] Preparing your team for the agentic software development life cycle. In my little bubble (regarding what customers constantly ask me about), this is the #1 topic.

[blog] Right-Sizing Engineering Teams for AI. Some quick thoughts that are worth checking out. What’s the ideal makeup for an engineering team in 2026 and beyond?

[article] How is AI already reshaping the software engineering labor market? Let’s stay on this topic, I guess? More advice for tech team leaders.

[article] What Authentic Leadership Looks Like Under Pressure. This feels related to the preview three pieces. This is likely a stressful time for many of us. How are you leading in this moment?

[blog] MCP vs. CLI for AI-native development. The “MCP or not” debate hit a fever pitch this week. Something’s in the water. It’s an “and” conversation to me; MCP makes sense in many situations, not in all.

[article] The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers. Now we’re talking about skills versus MCP. Again to me, the answer will be “both” for a lot of cases. I’ve been testing this out myself.

[blog] Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next. Feels like this is what started the mainstream cloud story. Congrats to the Amazon team on 20 great years.

[article] What OpenClaw Reveals About the Next Phase of AI Agents. We see time and time again that you shouldn’t dismiss an early, rough introduction of a new technology. It often signals that there’s fresh appetite for an unmet need.

[article] NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents. Safety features always follow a buzzy new idea. Just wait a bit and things like this pop up. More here.

[blog] Simplify your Cloud Run security with Identity Aware Proxy (IAP). Fantastic feature for people who want authenticated web apps with as little work as possible.

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