Daily Reading List – June 11, 2026 (#803)

I think every one of my dozen meetings today was in a different room (and floor) in the office. That’s not a brag, although my step count today is outstanding.

[article] Your AI strategy has a trust problem, not a tooling problem. Terrific post. Most corporate structures are designed to slow you down, not speed you up. That’s on purpose. Making the needed changes is hard.

[blog] How to unlock true ROI in software development – a deep dive into the latest DORA research. Three good insights here. If you’re struggling to define ROI or you’re in the trough of high cost with no return, read this.

[blog] Loop Engineering. It’s the hot topic this week. No doubt it has a place in certain scenarios. I’m not sold (or want to be sold) that this is how engineering should be moving forward.

[article] Loop Engineering: Design the System That Prompts Agents. Got it. I wonder how “big” a loop should be. If we’re talking small PR-style loops, maybe. If we’re talking entire software construction kicked off by a user-defined “goal”, that seems non-serious to me.

[aricle] The Anthropic leader who built Claude Code says he ditched prompting — now he just writes loops. Last one specifically about loops, I promise. But it’s good to know what the discussion is all about.

[blog] How Gemini Managed Agents Works under the Hood. This is an implementation of loop engineering! You ask for something, and kick off a background process where your intent is turned into a plan that an agent loops on until completion.

[article] Employees spend more time managing AI than producing work. Makes sense. The work is changing. That doesn’t mean the current state is the permanent one.

[article] Engineering leadership lessons from LDX3 2026. Read some takeaways on newly-amplified friction, hiring, and management changes.

[blog] Report: GKE Inference Gateway delivers up to 92% faster AI responses. No comparison if you want fast inference on a cloud Kubernetes. I mean, there is a comparison, and it’s included here. But there’s a clear winner.

[article] AI teams now deploy 1,000 times a month. Your pipeline wasn’t built for that. If your pipelines aren’t groaning right now, and you’re doing a lot of AI-generated code, that’s a concern.

[blog] How to deploy a Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) agent to Google Cloud Run. Nice step-by-step. You can go from nothing to running agent pretty quickly.

[blog] The Unbundling and Bundling of the PaaS Market. Is PaaS back? It’s always a back and forth between independent services and opinionated stack bundles.

[blog] Growing the next generation of American workers. It’s the builder era, and that includes ALL types of builders. Love this investment.

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