Daily Reading List – April 30, 2025 (#542)
Taking a short trip to Sunnyvale tonight so that I can talk to and learn from a couple of customers tomorrow. It was also a chance to refresh some demos and keep the skills sharp!
[blog] Using Google ADK to Build and Deploy a Stock Market AI Agent to Cloud Run in Minutes. If agents feel abstract to you, keep skimming through examples to get a sense for when and where you’d deploy one.
[blog] Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI. Great post. How do you know you’re slipping and what’s the right way (today) to pair with an AI assistant?
[blog] On Dropouts and Bootstraps. Vulnerable and insightful stuff from Charity. It’s easy to feel like the world owes us, or that we deserve the lofty position in tech that we have. Neither is true.
[blog] DeepEval adds native support for Gemini as an LLM Judge. I’ve seen some chatter that evals aren’t necessary, but I don’t buy in that. It seems valuable to be able to compare prompts, models, and agents in a repeatable way.
[article] What’s the Future of Middle Management? Important topic. It’s a tricky time for people managers who don’t also drive change or exhibit individual excellence.
[docs] AI and ML perspective: Operational excellence. What are principles and recommendations for building and operating robust AI and ML systems? There’s good guidance here.
[blog] The Guide to Kubernetes Debugging. Great content here for getting a big picture sense of what can go wrong and how to diagnose it.
[blog] Why Google’s Agent2Agent Protocol Needs Apache Kafka®. “Need” is a strong word. There should be an option for durable messaging in A2A for scenarios where point to point isn’t sufficient.
[article] Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI. Cool! It’s interesting that neither Microsoft nor Meta know the exact number. I take for granted that we do, since Google has a shared, opinionated platform for devs.
[blog] No nonsense guide to Go projects layout. I guess there’s no definitive “wrong way” to lay out a project structure, but there are better ways.
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