Daily Reading List – April 11, 2025 (#531)
After eight days in Las Vegas (gulp!), I’m heading home. It’s been a memorable and exhausting week. I wouldn’t trade our cloud platform for anyone else’s, and our team here is second to none. What a privilege to get to work with these cats.
[blog] Vibe Coding: Revolution or Reckless Abandon? Another banger from Addy who explains the good and bad of vibe coding. Read this for some excellent advice on how to approach it.
[blog] Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun. Wow, what a great summary of our developer keynote yesterday.
[article] An Interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian About Building an Enterprise Culture. When Ben and TK talk, it always results in a meatier conversation than what I see anywhere else.
[blog] Introducing Docker Model Runner: A Better Way to Build and Run GenAI Models Locally. From the company who really understands dev UX comes this tool for local work with LLMs. Here’s an example of using it with Gemma.
[blog] How to Deploy ADK Agents onto Google Cloud Run. I’ve got a lot more confidence that I can use this agent framework after watching some pros walk us through it. Karl does a great job here.
[article] Why Google Code Assist may finally be the programming power tool you need. Deep report here that explores why this tool is going from a “little curiosity” to a “powerhouse.”
[article] Wells Fargo’s AI assistant just crossed 245 million interactions – no human handoffs, no sensitive data exposed. For many companies, AI isn’t the future; it’s the “right now.” Some impressive results so far from Wells Fargo.
[blog] Looker adds AI-fueled visual, conversational data exploration, continuous integration. This service sometimes flies below the radar for me, but it’s quite popular and always improving in creative ways.
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