Daily Reading List – September 17, 2026 (#869)

My East Coast travel is nearly done as I jet to Texas to visit my kiddo in college. No reading list tomorrow as I navigate the Texas heat and BBQ.

[article] What happens to engineers when AI writes all the code? This piece calls out five places where engineers will spend time in the future. Now, for many.

[blog] Agent Anomaly Detection, now in Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. I like it. Your agent may be doing what it’s allowed to, but something doesn’t feel right. This new service adds no runtime latency but keeps an eye on agent execution.

[blog] Brownfield Agentic Engineering. Good topic. I’d imagine that every consulting company has a playbook like this right now. Tackling existing codebases with agents isn’t the same as start from scratch.

[article] When Persuasion Is (and Isn’t) Manipulation. It can be a fine line. I’ve studied the topic of persuasion for years, and there are ways to use this power for bad purposes.

[blog] How to De-Slop an AI-Generated Codebase. Tighter instructions, better rules, and more context can help you keep slop out of your code.

[article] Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear. It’s open, domain-specific, and doesn’t need a lot of your context. Interesting. I doubt this is the ENTIRE future of models, but it’ll be a part.

[blog] Agents: The new, New Kingmakers. Indeed, the moment is upon us. Product and motions are now built around the agent experience and what they need.

[article] What decides which tasks product managers are willing to delegate to GenAI? This has some advice for teams struggling to integrate AI into their existing workflows.

[blog] Elevating Antigravity agent skills, Part 3: Parallel subagents. Good advice here, including some anti-patterns to look out for.

[blog] AI Changed How Spotify Builds. What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity. Spotify has some pretty absurd usage numbers. Keeping systems online at their levels is no joke. This post has some stats and lessons learned (so far).

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