Daily Reading List – June 24, 2025 (#574)
A fun and frantic day. My kids are on Summer break, but there’s no slowdown for us working folks. That’s fine by me, as long as the work is interesting and impact is possible.
[blog] Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide. Give this a read. Ethan does another great job explain not only which AI he uses when, but how to act like a power user.
[blog] A practical guide to building Multi-Agents AI Systems with A2A. I get a lot of agent-related content in my feeds, and now a lot of agent-to-agent content. This one was solid.
[article] Google Donates the Agent2Agent Protocol to the Linux Foundation. Good writeup of yesterday’s big news.
[blog] The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2025. The big headline is that there’s no big headline. Very little movement in language usage by developers. Folks like what they like.
[blog] Seamless Tool Integration for Agents: A Deep Dive into the new Toolbox JS SDK. Maybe nobody is switching languages because the good stuff keeps coming to each one. Those building AI agents in JavaScript now have a better system for adding database-focused tools.
[article] Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with AI agent observability and MCP support. This matters for many reasons. But a big one is that a TON of people use Salesforce, so expect to see agentic flows popping up all over.
[blog] Supercharge your notebooks: The new AI-first Google Colab is now available to everyone. Build, debug, and analyze faster. Check out this fresh experience in Colab.
[article] Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor. We all need help prioritizing, and Jason gives us a framework that should steer us towards better tasks and stronger communication about our work.
[blog] This Week in Open Source – Inaugural Post. To me, it seems like it’s been a while since an industry-shaking open source project came out from a big tech vendor. A2A is great, but still early. But there’s actually still a ton of OSS going on at Google, and I liked this recap.
[article] The AI Revolution Won’t Happen Overnight. It will not. I think the optimists (of which I am one) have predicted the right impact, but the timeline is off.
[blog] Our favorite moments from 20 years of Google Earth. Do you just take for granted that you can immediately call up nearly any place on the planet and see it in detail? I do. And that’s ridiculous. 20 years later, this is still a magic service.
[article] Tech Hiring Improves but Managers Overworked, Says Report. It’s a tricky time to be a manager, but the best ones will use this opportunity to build better systems around them.
[blog] Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job. Related, I guess. Your value needs to outweigh your cost. That’s always been true. My goal is to always be a well-paid bargain to my employer.
[blog] Run your own code at the edge with Service Extensions plugins for Cloud CDN. It’s cool that we keep adding extensibility points into Google’s massive global network.
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