It’s fascinating to watch the evolution of thinking on a new topic. Agent skills are relatively new, and people are figuring out good practices. Should they be high-level or low-level? All inclusive within the Markdown or always distributed into scripts and resources? Anthropic had a good X article this week, OpenAI published some insights, and Google shipped a useful X article. Build things and learn for yourself what makes sense to you.
[blog] Production Is Where the Rigor Goes. Don’t just check out production logs when there’s an error. Charity argues that production is the source of truth for your system and deserves regular observation.
[blog] Introducing the new full-stack vibe coding experience in Google AI Studio. This is exciting. This is a killer tool for anyone who wants to take an idea and build a legit web app to implement it.
[article] We mistook event handling for architecture. Did we all get too focused on event paths and handling in our architectures? This article shows how frameworks and thinking has evolved.
[blog] Do Large Language Models follow Benford’s Law? Now I know what Benford’s law is. Apparently most distributions skew heavily toward numbers starting with 1 or 2. Do LLMs respect that?
[article] What the Best AI Users Do Differently—and How to Level Up All of Your Employees. Really good. What do sophisticated AI users do? I like the list, and was surprised that manager+ people are doing the best here.
[blog] Developer’s Guide to AI Agent Protocols. This throws a couple extra that you might not always hear about. With examples!
[blog] Using skills to accelerate OSS maintenance. Some maintainers are giving up because of the flood of AI-assisted PRs. I can understand that. But others are smartly updating the tools and workflows at their disposal.
[article] The unwritten laws of software engineering. What’s some tribal knowledge that never gets a fancy label, but we all kinda know it? Good list here.
[blog] AI shopping gets simpler with Universal Commerce Protocol updates. There’s a lot happening in this space and we’re continuing to improve this agentic protocol.
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