No time to build personal projects today, but it was rewarding to check in on next week’s announcements, launches, and the very cool stuff my own team is shipping at Google Cloud Next.
[article] Reluctantly Influential: Inside Lenny Rachitsky’s Demandingly Chill Life. Such a good piece about someone I admire. He’s a more successful version of me 🙂
[blog] Multi-Agent A2A with the Agent Development Kit(ADK), Cloud Run, Agent Skills, and Gemini CLI. This is a good combo to get familiar with. Even if you swap out components, they represent smart categories to invest in.
[article] Where will developer wisdom come from? Do you still need wisdom about how to build software? Or is AI wiser about how to write good code? Provocative article.
[blog] Building End to End AI Agents with ADK Dev Skills. I made a big mistake not using these ADK skills when building an agent last weekend. The process was fine, but this would have sped me up even more.
[article] AI Is Writing Our Code Faster Than We Can Verify It. Review every line, or give up entirely? There’s a third choice, as outlined here.
[blog] MCP Toolbox v1.0: The Open-Source Framework for Secure Agentic Data Access. This open project got better month over month, and now it’s a great offering for those bringing data to AI agents.
[article] Why Leaders Need “Power Skills.” Hard skills get you promoted, but “power skills” keep you there. This article looks at how you connect with others and demonstrate higher-order leadership.
[blog] Jaspr: Why web development in Dart might just be a good idea. We used this ourselves to rebuild the Dart and Flutter websites.
[blog] We rebuilt Flutter’s websites with Dart and Jaspr. And here is that particular story. I’m tempted to build something with Jaspr this weekend.
[article] Cost concerns loom as agentic AI advances in software development. The costs will feel high while we’re in the in-between stage of still relying solely on people while introducing AI that changes that dependency.
[blog] Prepay for the Gemini API to get more control over your spend. Prepay billing in the Gemini API may. help with cost concerns.
[article] Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM. New Anthropic model for you. And we used this chance to ship multi-region endpoints for this model in Vertex AI.
[article] OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop. I wonder how the growth of these “everything apps” squeeze out other tools over time.
[blog] Building a Scalable RAG Backend with Cloud Run Jobs and AlloyDB. If you do it right, you don’t need expensive, always-on hardware to do some pretty special things.
[blog] Your Dependencies Are Someone Else’s Attack Surface. Good post. If you have humans or agents coding, have the right security checks in place.
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