It was a pretty insane day for frontier models. OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna at very competitive pricing, while Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5.5 with similar performance to Fable but 40% cheaper. Model-as-a-service stays very interesting when it’s priced competitively to run-it-yourself models.
[blog] Analyzing Jev, a new AI model. Great down-to-earth description of what this model does, and how it probably works.
[blog] Bring Jev to BigQuery with Cloud Run. Extensible systems, for the win. Jeff uses BigQuery’s remote functions capability to invoke the Jev model for fast scoring.
[blog] JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development. Maybe it’s just me, but I still haven’t noticed a ton of good options for teams working with AI. Lots of products and experiences targeting individual users. This seems like a step forward.
[blog] Trying the Software factory pattern. I liked the callouts to the moving bottleneck, and some of the things that must be true for this pattern to work.
[article] 1 in 4 agents run unmonitored, giving way to operational risk. Goodness, you all use a LOT of observability tools. Up to twelve at 75% of IT orgs.
[article] Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch. They’re doing everything right at the moment. Great messaging, solid experience, wide appeal. I’m sure there will be snafus (permissions, etc), but the personal agent moment is now.
[article] Instagram Writing and the Decline of Reading. I’m guilty of this, or maybe as Steve says, just adapting to the times. That said, embrace nuance and long-form reading, not just punchy definitive statements.
[blog] 6 Ways Traditional API Design Has Changed Forever. Most of these relate to the new types of consumers and access patterns.
[blog] Your Adaptive UI Has No Screenshot. Test the inputs, not the outputs. As we have more generative interfaces that don’t look the same for each person, you’ll want to learn more about how the user got there.
[blog] Colab is now part of your Google AI plan. There’s a heck of a lot of value in these plans. Now you get premium access to better hardware for data science work.
[blog] 10 tips to improve your coding agent game. These are some surprisingly dense tips. Good ones that made me stop and think.
[article] Fixing agent memory. We’re probably hold agents to a higher standard than we hold ourselves. I forget or misremember things all the time. Matt says we need a way continuously validate agent memories.
[blog] Shopify returns to native, and what that says about rewrites in the agentic era. It’s a signal, just like a few high profile companies switching to private clouds a decade ago. But don’t over-index until there’s proof it’s a trend.
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