Where’s your head at on personal agents? I’m using them more at work, spinning up various tasks (“go figure out what this new API is”, “turn my notes into a presentation”). But I’m not yet doing a ton on the personal front. A few research projects. Nothing daily. You?
[blog] Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers. Huge deal. Only one cloud can offer OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models. That’s us.
[article] Critical PHP vulnerabilities: POC released, attacks starting. This is a big one. Do an audit and start patching immediately. More here.
[blog] Responding to core PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. I hadn’t realized our role in finding and patching this vulnerability. Here’s more on the background, and how to patch any systems running on Google Cloud.
[blog] What is a Forward Deployed Product Manager, anyway? Hmm. This post answered a bunch of questions. I have others. The concept has some merit, but I’m skeptical of the real-world application of this.
[article] AI Benchmarks: Climbing the Wrong Hills. Fairly thorough analysis here regarding model benchmarks, and the probably with making a measure the target.
[blog] Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively. The Hugging Face team wrote up a great post explaining how much easier it is to now use TPUs in their ecosystem.
[blog] Genkit Go 1.14: Typed HITL tools, budgets, context compression, GenAI tracing, and decision models. Honestly, this framework for Go is getting very good. It’s making it much easier to add agentic capabilities to apps. Give it a look.
[blog] The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure. This post has a bit of a dive into some of the storage approach for GitHub, and changes they made for better scale.
[blog] Stress-Testing Gemini 4 Argon: Building a 3D Flutter Kart Game in 15 Prompts with Zero Assets. You can just build 3D games. In this case, with fifteen prompts over three plus hours.
[blog] SIMD and Go. I’m not a hardware guy or smart about all the CPU architectures. But I took some extra time to really understand this, and why even regular devs should care.
[article] AI made developers faster. Is their judgment keeping up? Are engineers doing anything with AI that they couldn’t do before? And are they growing their judgement at the same time?
[blog] BigQuery ObjectRef now GA: Build multimodal data platforms for conversational analytics entirely in SQL. This is a very cool solution for storing pointers to objects, and then accessing those objects for analysis in BigQuery.
[article] Claude Duet is Anthropic’s answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. Hot space. Everybody wants to give you a personal agent.
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