Daily Reading List – June 12, 2025 (#567)
Today was my last full day on this European trip, and I had a few more customer presentations to go. It’s fascinating (and not suprising) that most folks want guidance on AI rollouts more than anything else.
[blog] My first vibecoding project (AI experiments)). Tom the tech writer had a problem to solve, and wanted to build out a solution, even if he didn’t understand all the generated code. Good lessons along the way.
[blog] Detecting AI-Generated Text by Uncovering Its Statistical “Tells”. Love this. Karl wondered if he could detect AI generated text and find the “tells” that gave it away. He did, and now I worry that I write like an LLM.
[article] Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds. Some cool stuff out of Databricks this week at their annual conference. Also fully managed PostgreSQL called Lakebase, a no-code agent builder, and a free edition.
[blog] Everyone Gets a Database. It’s not your imagination; there are some independent database vendors getting scooped up by bigger companies. Steve looks at it.
[blog] IAM Survival Series: Service Accounts in Google Cloud. Here’s a terrific deep dive into service accounts, which don’t get a lot of attention but are super important. I just realized that sentence sounds like it was AI generated, given Karl’s above “tells.” Sigh.
[blog] Introducing New Open Source Documentation Resources. Here are a pair of tools that will help those maintaining docs for open source projects.
[blog] MCP vs APIs: When to Use Which for AI Agent Development. I’m using both right now, and not smart enough to have a strong enough opinion on this. I like the boundaries offered by an API, but understand the true agency offered by an MCP server.
[blog] What web frameworks does Firebase App Hosting support? If you’ve got a JavaScript-based web app, it looks like Firebase is happy to run it.
[youtube-video] AI Agents & The Future of Coding: A Conversation with a Googler. Good conversation here. There are opportunities and risks with agents, and they’re discussed in depth.
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