Daily Reading List – June 25, 2026 (#812)

How well my favorite sports team plays should have no bearing on my happiness. Alas, that’s not the case. But, my Padres won three in a row, which partially explains my good mood this week.

[blog] Why Are Agents Buying the Same Answer Twice? That’s a darn good question. Devin wonders why we’re computing stable answers over and over again, versus storing and recalling them.

[blog] Who Wrote That Query? You need the right visibility if you’re going to troubleshoot effectively. I like that our MCP Toolbox for Databases now makes it possible to trace a SQL query back to the agent prompt.

[site] ThoughtWorks Radar – April 2026. I don’t know how I missed this back in April. But scan through what technologies are ready for adoption and trial.

[blog] Resilience Patterns Can Make Your System Less Resilient. Can you make your system worse by applying retries, circuit breakers, and fallbacks? Yes, yes you can.

[blog] Brownfield modernization with Antigravity. New stuff is fun, but we’re all going to spend most of our AI coding effort on existing systems.

[blog] Configuration belongs in a database. Maybe a hot take? But the argument here holds water with me.

[article] AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll. I’m not sure it’s wise to try and project current behavior too far out. We’re still figuring out these tools, models, and pricing schemes. Related.

[article] Stop Getting Good at Protocols. Get Good at Agent Experience. Be good at both? Even after reading this, I’m not sure you can be great at AX without understanding the ways to make it happen. But I get the point to not obsess over fast-changing implementations.

[article] Demand for AI-ready coders skyrockets in 5 years. So the roles are changing, not disappearing? I think everyone not invested in the doomer outcome expected this to be true. Related.

[blog] Ping Pong Pairing with Antigravity. Aja applies a proven technique but with AI agents instead of humans.

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