Daily Reading List – March 6, 2026 (#736)

I’m off to Arizona for a couple of days to watch Spring Training baseball with my son. And to hang out with my brother and friends. Back here on Monday!

[blog] You can’t stream the energy: A developer’s guide to Google Cloud Next ’26 in Vegas. If you’re procrastinating, stop it. I saw the numbers this week and the event is close to selling out. Get yourself to the premium dev and AI event of the year.

[blog] Vibe Coding to Production. Even now, you’re probably not pushing production apps from your IDE. Ankur connects his AI-built app to GitHub, Cloud Build, and Cloud Run.

[blog] Does AI Make Us Smarter or Dumber? Yes? We’re losing some “primitive” abilities but unlocking new superpowers.

[article] OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions. Plenty of new models this week, including fresh ones from OpenAI.

[blog] Look What You Made Us Patch: 2025 Zero-Days in Review. The zero-day landscape was different last year. Even more enterprise tech attacks, with browser-based exploitation dropping.

[blog] How Google Does It: Applying SRE to cybersecurity. SRE applies to security too, of course. I like these details of how we think about it.

[article] The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source. I guess we can just rewrite stuff now? It’s not difficult to regenerate entire projects, build compatibility layers, etc.

[blog] Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? Continuing that thought, how legal is it? That question is being tested here as debate arises over a rebuild and relicense.

[blog] GitOps architecture, patterns and anti-patterns. Are you following good practices, or anti-patterns? A lot of specifics here.

[article] Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool. Looks cool. Always-on fleets of agents will be a commonplace thing in twelve months. Maybe six.

[blog] Practical Guide to Evaluating and Testing Agent Skills. You know how to build the skill, but can you test the skill? It’s really the most important part, the testing. Anybody can just build them. Yes, I’m ripping off a Seinfeld bit.

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