There’s a good amount of advice in today’s reading list. Now that we’re deeper into the mainstreaming of AI, the advice is feeling more grounded in real experience.
[blog] AI Can Write More of the Code. We Still Have to Engineer the System. Reasonable point of view. We’ve got eons more automation with AI reasoning mixed in, but human engineers want to define the work and be able to verify the results.
[blog] Five rules for evaluating agent skills before they bloat your context window. Terrific post with genuinely useful (and proven) approaches for evaluating skills to see if they’re worth using.
[article] Influencing the agents. Great post from Matt. The agents are making default decisions on products, and many of us will just accept those recommendations for convenience. Build and explain your products accordingly.
[blog] Watch Henry Cavill build a video game on his Googlebook. Big fan of his, and glad he’s doing fun work with us.
[blog] ADK2.0 101 (#4a): Evaluating your agents. Even if you’re not building them yourself (yet), get comfortable with the ideas behind agent evals.
[blog] How AI Applications Earn Their Premium. Where does value live now? Why buy versus build it yourself? These seem like the right levers.
[blog] Guest Posts: How //go:embed Works: From Source Files to Binary. Other programming languages let you stash content in the resulting binary, but Go’s approach is simple, powerful, and somewhat unique.
[blog] Top Gen AI Frameworks for Go in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison. I don’t know what’s going to happen with agent frameworks. We probably have too many. Even too few? It’s possible that general agents, given skills, will negate the need for many custom-coded agents. Or not.
[blog] Vibe Coding, Meet Reality. It’s about layered infrastructure. Not having people vibe a whole stack. Are we giving people the right places to build, and supporting them with safe and effective substrates?
[blog] AlloyDB Express: Instant, scale-to-zero PostgreSQL for developers and coding agents. Many services offer fast database instances now. We’re a bit unique in offering built-in AI capabilities and one-click upgrade to production-scale. Comes with a free tier too.
[article] Jensen Huang’s Advice to Young Developers: “Become the World’s Best User of AI.” Optimistic take, but this is similar advice I give when asked by young people. You are capable of more than ever.
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