If you’ve read this list for any amount of time, you can tell that I’m drawn to content about how AI impacts software engineering. More than content about how do you use AI product X or Y. Both types are interesting, but the conversation the rest of 2026 will be increasingly about how to work, not which tools to use.
[blog] Managing Architectural Risk During Agile Development. Maybe this feels like a quaint conversation in 2026 with code-first-think-later AI tools. But quality attributes and architecture patterns still matter.
[article] CI wasn’t built for coding agents. Here’s what comes next. This talks about moving system validation earlier into the process where agents can find and fix integration problems faster.
[article] Google open-sources Agent Executor to run AI agents in production. It’s early, but keep an eye on this. The industry will need a standard agent runtime.
[article] “AI-Powered” Isn’t a Position. Customers don’t care that your product uses AI. They may like it less because of it! All that matters is whether you solve a job and have a authentic POV that resonates.
[blog] Wiring ADK Kotlin agents in an Android application. Anybody can build anything now. Guillaume isn’t an expert at Android or Kotlin, but stitched together a set of services with AI and the result was great.
[blog] 2 PhaaS 2 Furious: The Evolution of Chinese-language Phishing Services. I respect the title. The post itself has a lot of scary but useful details about the sophistication of phishing attacks.
[blog] The Counterintuitive Way To Get Better At Anything. I really liked this. It goes against many behaviors we think are “right” now.
[blog] AI Studio unlocks full-stack vibe coding with Cloud Run, Firebase, and Cloud SQL, no credit card required. It’s simply never been easier to start and try new technologies that might change your product or business.
[blog] The 10 Go Error Handling Commandments. I’ve grown to like how Go does error handling. This post offers ways to do it better than just “wrap and return.”
[blog] What we’ve learned building cloud agents. Many good insights in this post from Cursor. Build complete dev environments for agents, rely on durable execution with decoupled state, and know how/when to limit blocking on humans.
[blog] Announcing Dart 3.12. Flutter gets the glory, as it should, but it’s an app framework on top of Dart. The Dart language itself keeps getting more useful.
[blog] A Practical Guide to Profiling in Go. You don’t care about profiling your app until you do. And then you need a smart way to do it. Go has it built in, and the JetBrains GoLand IDE also pulls it together well.
[blog] How we evolved Google’s global and data center networks for the AI era. Informative look at the various architectural changes we’ve made to evolve our Google network for the demands of AI workloads.
[blog] Using AI to write better code more slowly. I see a lot of folks writing about their angst and loss of joy because of what AI can now do. I get it. There are also ways to continue doing work you like, but better. Good post here on writing high quality software with the help of AI.
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