I “built” a demo system in the background today while getting my other work done. It was fun to dip in every half hour and review the agent’s progress, ask questions to better understand what happened, and then approve the next steps. I could get used to this.
[article] Do you really need another framework? Maybe? This is one for your context and whether you’re giving an agent anything good.
[article] CAFE(S): Your Agent Is Only As Good As Its Context. Learn more about the above framework by reading this paper from us and others.
[blog] EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model. Very unique, and potentially very useful. Work entirely locally on device and across modalities (text, image, video, and audio).
[blog] AI For The Public Interest: What A Quarter Century Of Global Television News Can Teach Us About Our World. What if you ask AI to watch decades of television news across 75 countries? That’s a fascinating pool of data for insights.
[blog] The 4 levels of agentic software development. For most companies, their differentiator won’t be model capabilities; it’ll be how they change the way software is built. These four levels factor that in.
[article] Mistral debuts Large 4 ‘Le Chonk’, a 1-trillion parameter text output model with high benchmarks planned for open weights release. Top tier naming. Le Chonk. The numbers look impressive here, which is only good for buyers.
[article] There’s No Such Thing as an AI-Ready Culture. These are five dimensions to look at, but no exact “right” culture, but there are muscles to build.
[blog] How To Stop Getting Taken Advantage Of: 6 Secrets From Game Theory. Most of us could use this advice. Acting too nice or avoiding conflict? That probably means you’re losing in every situation.
[article] Knowing which vulnerability to fix first. Because you probably can’t get them all, you need to think carefully about which vulnerabilities to focus on.
[blog] The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here! Still a big deal, even with StackOverflow down from its former glory. Many insights into developer adoption and trends.
[blog] Data is the application. Interesting POV. With agentic coding you can make or remake just about everything in no time. But data? The lack of it, or management of it, requires more care.
[blog] Cloud Run’s invisible 60% scaling dials are now yours to control. With good software, the default configuration values are set where they are for a reason. But you may want to override them based on what you know about your system.
[blog] Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb. I love engineering blog posts like this. Here’s how Airbnb updated their query capture system.
[blog] Two-Way Doors: Don’t Code Yourself into a Corner. Don’t over-engineer everything for ultimate flexibility, but also don’t paint yourself into a corner.
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