That’s a wrap on the week. I’m ready for a couple of days off!
[blog] Tokens to Deploy: Agent Skills are Great but CLI’s are Better. Such a great post. Which deployment approach eats the fewest tokens? Esther looked at the viable options and brought receipts.
[article] When are developers receptive to proactive AI suggestions? It’s pretty clear that developers only want eager AI suggestions at natural boundaries of their work. Not randomly in the middle.
[article] Eight reasons coding agents are better than software developers. The writer will have the counter piece (“why developers are better than agents”) next week, so don’t freak out. But if we’re being honest with ourselves, these points are valid.
[blog] Getting Started with the Google Cloud CLI Remote MCP Server. We just saw above that CLIs are an efficient and effective tool for agents. But maybe your agent can’t call local CLIs or tools. That’s where a CLI-over-MCP comes in.
[blog] Rewrite Everything in Java: Not Rust. Well that’s a bit of cold water on “Rust all the things.” Use whatever language you want, but some are wildly overhyped right now.
[blog] AI makes it easy to migrate. Flutter makes it easy to scale. Read this. It’s a good argument for why you should be thoughtful about duplicating codebases for different platforms.
[blog] Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages. Tell me he’s wrong. Your speed problem is not about your choice of language. It’s design.
[youtube-video] AI harness crash course. People are using the word “harness” to represent many things. Annie does a good job here explaining what a harness is about.
[blog] When to use a diffusion LLM: I compared DiffusionGemma and Gemma 4. Diffusion LLMs are cool and instances like DiffusionGemma generates entire token blocks at once. Super fast. But Karl shows that “regular” Gemma 4 is still the best choice for step by step reasoning.
[article] PHP2Shell was only the beginning: AI is accelerating the patch race. Worst week ever in cybersecurity? Possibly. It’s not going to get better any time soon.
[blog] Streaming comes to API Gateway: real-time and AI-ready APIs, without changing your spec. Here’s a great option if you have streaming results from LLMs, agents, or APIs and want a proxy in front.
[blog] Introducing the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin: scaling design-driven AI software development. Have you heard of this? It’s a way of thinking about AI coding, and we’ve now open sourced an agent plugin that you can use too.
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