Daily Reading List – July 17, 2026 (#827)

Just got home after a 24+ hour travel day back from India. No wifi on the second (11 hour) segment, so I’ll have some catching up to do! Great trip, though.

[blog] What 10 autonomous film crews taught us about agent teamwork. This might be the wildest thing you read all week. What happens when you create film crews out of AI agents, and then assign an AI documentary crew to capture the journey? You get this.

[article] How I Cut an AI Agent’s Token Use by 94%. Super smart. Over time, you might realize that your natural language agent skill can be “compiled” into a deterministic script.

[blog] My thoughts on the future of Go in the AI era. So very well laid out, and a major reason that Go may become the preferred language for this AI era.

[blog] How to manage AI investments in the agentic era. From OpenAI. It looks at how to identify (and quantify?) value from your AI investment.

[blog] NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. We like renaming things. This product keeps getting better and more integrated, so I get the reasoning.

[blog] Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence. Yeesh, you could make the case that this is now the best coding model, and it’s an open one. Running this yourself is fairly impractical (for now), but I imagine the API will be super popular.

[blog] Four math concepts to improve your vibe coding. I was told there’d be no math today. But Karl pulled me in with this post.

[blog] Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t. Some interesting perspective up on the Hugging Face blog. You’ll increasingly crave a model router. But there’s more to it than you think.

[blog] Evolving Spec-Driven Development: Conductor Now Supports Antigravity. This spec-driven extension for the Gemini CLI now works as a plugin for Antigravity and agentic harnesses.

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