Daily Reading List – April 10, 2026 (#761)

Happy Friday. I do hope you had a productive week, and get the chance to enjoy yourself over the weekend.

[article] AI Adoption by the Numbers. That “95% of AI pilots fail” stat from last year? Feels suspect. This gang looked at data that shows that AI startups are finding real success in the enterprise.

[article] AAIF’s MCP Dev Summit: Gateways, gRPC, and Observability Signal Protocol Hardening. Good crowd at this MCP event, with clear signs that MCP is becoming a serious part of vendor and enterprise stacks.

[blog] Mastering Gemini CLI Subagents: Part 1. I learned a couple of things from this post about sub-agents and when to use them.

[article] With Claude Managed Agents, Anthropic wants to run your AI agents for you. Anthropic just shipped this beta service. Every vendor seemingly wants you to run agents on (or through) their platform. Makes sense to me.

[blog] QueryData helps agents turn natural language into queries for AlloyDB, Cloud SQL and Spanner. Pretty sweet API that could be useful in a lot of different app scenarios.

[blog] Docs are Dead. Long Live the Docs. Trusted sources of truth matter now more than ever. Documentation is important. The interfaces changed.

[blog] The Hidden Cost of Comfort. We’re drowning out important signals of discomfort that help us build resulting resilience.

[blog] Agent Skills Are the New SDK (And You Should Be Building One). Very good argument for having a skills strategy that customers can benefit from.

[blog] How Estée Lauder Companies uses Cloud Run worker pools for its pull-based agentic workloads. Good pattern here for ensuring you deliver a more consistent experience for web users that take advantage of LLM features.

[blog] 6 easy ways to study for finals with Gemini. Don’t use AI to skip the work. Use it to do better work.

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