No-meeting-Friday held today, and I needed it. Email backlog cleared, RSS reader emptied, writing done, and multiple explorations completed. Enjoy your weekend!
[article] Are You Meeting the Needs of the People You Lead? What a great article. Do leaders fail because of bad judgement or character, or because there’s a mismatch between what they provide and followers need?
[article] How does deepening AI fluency change what it means to be a software developer? Where do developers want to spend their time, and where do they want AI involved? This is an important read for any engineering manager.
[blog] Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google + Wiz changes multicloud strategy for CISOs. I get a firsthand look at the threats Google faces every day, and see how important it is to have a proactive, comprehensive security approach for all your infrastructure.
[article] Is Software Losing Its Head? Where does product defensibility move when all you are is an API? This a16z post mentions proprietary data, network coordination, and a couple other areas.
[article] Anthropic puts Claude agents on a meter across its subscriptions. It’s a trend. But not uniformly applied, and OpenAI is trying to take advantage of developer frustration with Anthropic. More here.
[blog] Announcing Genkit Middleware: Intercept, extend, and harden your agentic apps. My team builds this framework, and it’s an underrated way to add AI to new or existing apps.
[blog] Vercel AI SDK Middleware vs Genkit Middleware: A Hands-On Comparison. Speaking of Genkit, I just read this extremely thorough look at the different philosophies and implementations of these popular AI frameworks.
[article] How to build a skills library for your engineering team. I expect to see more posts like this. How do you collect and share the right context across teams, not just for yourself?
[blog] New updates to A2UI and Flutter’s GenUI package. While this might mean you write MORE code, not less, this seems like a smart update to our package that helps you build generative UIs.
[blog] Why GKE for your AI Agent. I’m sold. Good case for using Kubernetes, especially if you already have models or workloads running there.
[blog] xAI Enters the Coding Agent Race With Grok Build. Not a surprise, and I wouldn’t remotely discount the chances that this team builds something very useful and powerful. More here.
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