A few of today’s items stood out to me as good grounding as the (tech and real) world swirls around us. Focus on your team and don’t overburden them. Slow your thinking and write more down. Keep a steady eye on new paradigms that may have huge impact, but need consideration. We’ll be fine.
[blog] The Code Agent Orchestra – what makes multi-agent coding work. This is the next focus area I’m keying in on right now. I’m competent building apps with AI tools. But now it’s time to get comfortable unleashing a team of agents.
[article] Are You Overburdening Your Most Engaged Employees? Easy to do. But that enthusiastic, competent person has their limits. Some suggestions here for better ways to assign work.
[blog] Announcing ADK for Java 1.0.0: Building the Future of AI Agents in Java.Fantastic announcement, and exactly how you should write a blog post like this. Check out the summary of what’s new, why it matters, and exactly how to use each feature.
[blog] How I Finally Killed My Massive BigQuery CASE Statements. As Jeff mentions, you wouldn’t use this approach for giant datasets—you’d employ an actual step to pre-compute embeddings—this is a much simpler option for mid-size queries.
[blog] Make the switch: Bring your AI memories and chat history to Gemini. Convenient. We’re all building some gravity with our preferred tools, but easier switching costs makes it possible to look around more.
[blog] Why You Should Start Blogging (Even If Nobody Will Read It). Yes! Start now. Develop your voice. Watch what happens.
[blog] The new AI literacy: Insights from student developers. Maybe the young folks are on to something. This research project pulled out some insights that seem applicable to our business settings.
[blog] Using Flutter with Firebase: A Developer’s Guide. This has detailed look at the backend services any mobile (or web) app needs.
[blog] How agentic software development will change databases. Agents creating 4x more databases than humans? That’s what Databricks is seeing in their Lakebase platform.
[blog] Announcing the winners of the MedGemma Impact Challenge. I like these sorts of competitions where people build genuinely useful technology.
[blog] Gemma-SRE: Self-Hosted vLLM Infrastructure Agent. That same open model (Gemma) makes it straightforward to self-host your own LLM for cases like this.
[article] Waymo’s skyrocketing ridership in one chart. Pretty crazy growth curve. Only going up!
[blog] Calling the game: How MLB brings AI-powered color commentary to fans with Scout Insights. This is a great way to add AI to a product. Give it great grounding sources, and focus on a delightful (and fast) user experience.
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