Daily Reading List – May 28, 2026 (#793)

I write an internal Google newsletter every Friday and am always looking out for a theme emerging from the week’s reading list. I suspect that this week’s newsletter will be focused on how AI is impacting tech managers.

[blog] The Orchestration Tax is You. Great insights, as usual, from Addy. Some of this stems from the panel I hosted last week.

[article] Our Favorite Management Tips on Giving Feedback. All useful. Still not my strongest skill.

[article] Trisha Gee: AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Pipeline – It Will Break It Faster. Now that we can generate code, are we focusing on the whole process? Requirements and prioritization? Build pipelines and production metrics?

[blog] Introducing Google AI Threat Defense to help you outpace the adversary. We’re assembling some of our security parts into a greater whole.

[article] What do software developers do now? We’re in the in-between stages of job descriptions. You can’t wholly rewrite them yet, but the old way of working is clearly gone.

[article] Stop interviewing engineers like it’s 2022. I really liked the approach here. You should give interviewees AI tools since you’ll demand they use them at work. But your interview questions have to evolve.

[blog] A Guide to AI Cold Starts on Cloud Run. The fact that you can do AI inference from a serverless compute stack is pretty amazing. Here’s how to squeeze out more performance.

[article] AI productivity debate. Good panel discussion here with pragmatic answers about mostly the human side of the AI transition.

[blog] AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations. You want expert Site Reliability Engineers, and giving them expert tools leads to better results. Here’s how we’re thoughtfully introducing AI.

[blog] Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue. Instead of spending a lot of time building and writing, we’re spending more time deciding. That’s harder.

[blog] Announcing the newest cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East, North Africa & Turkey. The program delivers major impact to startups around the world.

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