I’m heading up to San Francisco tonight to attend GitHub Universe tomorrow. First time! I’ll be part of a panel discussion, and then fly home tomorrow night. Looking forward to meeting a few people face-to-face for the first time.
[blog] Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model. It’s us again. Two weeks later, another frontier model release. This one builds on the last, and shows great improvement at long-horizon tasks. More here.
[blog] Q3 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO. Big week of public company earnings. Google had a strong quarter, and Cloud is an absolute rocket ship.
[blog] The State of Context Engineering. Excellent read. Get smarter on context fails, patterns, and opportunities.
[article] “The panic hasn’t turned into patching”: What security researchers really think about the PHP2Shell response. The vast majority of exposed systems haven’t been patched. Are we failing our collective day-2 responsibilities here?
[blog] Apple’s git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates. It’s hard to patch a bunch of stuff quickly, but it seems our industry hasn’t been super fast at closing the holes identified last week.
[blog] The Web Can’t Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture. Consolidation is a natural response to an upfront explosion in options. Are we landing on too few JavaScript runtimes now with Deno going away?
[blog] The sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning. How can LLMs continuing learning new facts, while not forgetting what it already knew? It’s a challenge, but something we’re looking at.
[article] How do developers keep momentum as AI agents change the work? Does AI mess with your flow? Can you get and sustain momentum when agents are involved? Interesting research here.
[blog] I don’t write code anymore. Ditto. Granted, I’m not paid to do so anymore. But I’m also producing more software and having more fun doing it than any time in my career.
[blog] GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack. Looks like a solid vision for software engineering work in the AI era. More here.
[blog] Fast, reliable A2UI, with swappable inference formats. Now we’re talking. This is moving from being a useful idea, to a production-ready implementation. Fast generative UIs are here.
[blog] Agentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development. Speaking of A2UI, it’s not part of the Android experience with Jetpack Compose. This, and much more announced today.
[article] Our Favorite Management Tips on Delegating Effectively. This is meant for human managers, but I read much of this advice thinking about how it applies to delegating work to AI.
[blog] What was the turning point for Postgres? It’s winning right now, but why? Definitely wasn’t an overnight success story.
[blog] How AI agents shape experts’ judgment calls. Are experts influenced more by AI than they think they are? Anthropic did some research, and it looks like people tend to adopt the agent’s direction and claim as their own.
[blog] Why “Plan Mode” is just scoping. Don’t forget discovery! Want to stop the agent before it starts writing code? You have a few options, and Alexis points out when to use which.
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