Daily Reading List – August 26, 2026 (#854)

Another good batch of items today that might impact how you train your people, share knowledge across teams, and pay for AI services.

[blog] What is harness engineering and why should I care? It’s not too late to ask, and even those who “know” can always learn more.

[blog] What’s the Difference between Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) & Agent Experience (AX)? “Regular” SEO still matters, as web search tools alongside LLMs pull top search results. But there are plenty of new considerations for what gets included in the LLM itself, and the overall agent experience.

[blog] Is the future of learning ‘vibe’ training? The focus of learning switches from “how” to “why.”This has impact on the trainers as much as the students!

[blog] Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders. Is your favorite tool seemingly switching up its pricing model more often? You’re not imagining things. Here’s what happening in the world of software pricing.

[blog] FinOps for the AI era: New flexible billing and cost controls for agents. Speaking of monetization, we’re going to keep working on ways to make products easier to pay for, while reflecting that how we consume these products is changing.

[article] You need to find product-market fit again (sorry). You’re probably never done finding or confirming fit. This post looks at how to proactively disrupt yourself to keep learning.

[blog] Gemini for Go Developers: Building Agents in Go. Daniela did the test I wanted to run, and did it better. Excellent assessment here of different ways to build agents.

[blog] Intelligence is the Primitive. Applications are the Diffusion Layer. Super interesting slides here, some of which challenged my own thinking on the topics. Particularly the moats (or lack thereof).

[blog] How Flutter stays ahead of iOS releases. If you build a product on top of a platform, you have to figure out how to be ready for each major platform release.

[blog] What language are agent skills written in? What an interesting question, and it produces a fascinating answer. Good read.

[article] Salesforce just put its entire CRM inside Claude — and says you’ll never need its app again. Cool move. Likely a harbinger of the future. Build more endpoints, and fewer frontends.

[blog] Using OKF with Knowledge Catalog to serve context for agents. In a meeting today, someone asked me how to distribute shared context. I had no answer. Then read this post and shared it.

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