Another batch of articles today that impacted my thinking. Thanks to today’s reading list, I installed the MCP server for our Google Developer Knowledge API, realized I was thinking about MCP wrong, and felt grateful for the job changes I didn’t make.
[blog] Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server. This is the best thing we’ll deliver this week. Developers (and AI tools) can now access a single source of truth for information about Google products.
[article] Three ways AI will change engineering practices. Don’t disagree with this. Have you planned for each?
[article] To Drive AI Adoption, Build Your Team’s Product Management Skills. It’s likely confirmation bias, but I’m noticing a LOT of conversation about the value of a product management discipline when embracing AI.
[blog] Context Management and MCP. Wow, my favorite post of the day. It definitely made me rethink some things token consumption and Skills.
[blog] Forget technical debt. The point here is that focusing purely on technical debt isn’t sufficient to fixing the problems in the system.
[article] What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes? More thought experiments about technical debt! This was a compelling read.
[article] IT leaders grapple with AI agent sprawl. New source of debt, incoming! Companies need to get a handle on their agents, data, and integrations.
[blog] Easy FunctionGemma finetuning with Tunix on Google TPUs. I learned like four things from this post, and I’m tempted to actually run this example scenario myself!
[article] Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’. Is it model update season already? We’ve already made this one available on Vertex AI. OpenAI gave Anthropic about ten minutes in the spotlight.
[article] 4 self-contained databases for your apps. Which databases offer you a no-install binary that’s portable? I’m not sure I thought of this whole set.
[blog] Antigravity the Ralph Wiggum style. Turn your agent-building tool loose and let it relentless tackle a problem until it reaches the goal? It’s not for every case, but seeing this approach may spark ideas.
[article] Kilo CLI 1.0 brings open source vibe coding to your terminal with support for 500+ models. Interesting. These types of tools are getting so powerful.
[blog] I left FAANG for a startup and regretted it. We only seem to hear stories of raging successes after leaving a BIG TECH job. It’s useful to see a different perspective.
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