I’m in Las Vegas this week for Google Cloud Next ’26, and spent the last two (full) days in various keynote rehearsals. Fun stuff with people I enjoy hanging out with.
[blog] The Agent Stack Bet. Important post. Have we given agents too much … agency? Addy calls out four architectural bets to make to get back in control.
[blog] How to hire people who are better than you. Great stuff if you’re trying to improve who and how you hire. Which I think is all of us!
[blog] From operational to analytical: The unified Spanner Graph and BigQuery Graph solution. I haven’t used many graph databases, but it seems convenient to have these capabilities built into database engines I already use.
[article] When Your Ambition Starts to Exhaust You. These are five helpful questions to ask yourself.
[guide] Multi-agent private networking patterns in Google Cloud. Very good content here for anyone working through multi-agent setups.
[article] ‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think. I understand why some think this is a good proxy metric for meaningful adoption internally. But it’s far from an indicator of excellence.
[blog] Designing synthetic datasets for the real world: Mechanism design and reasoning from first principles. Here’s a new Google Research project that produces better synthetic datasets with the help of AI.
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