Daily Reading List – June 25, 2025 (#575)
We’ve been building up to today’s launch of the Gemini CLI. There were some inevitable hiccups on launch day, but it’s fun to be part of teams that make things people like using. Give it a try!
[blog] Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent. This is a huge deal. Open source, free to use, lightweight, and super extensible. This is another reason I think software engineering is changing forever. Press coverage here, here, here, and here.
[blog] Getting Started with Gemini CLI. Here’s a spot-on guide for installing and flexing some of the most important parts of our powerful new tool.
[blog] How Salesforce Engineering Operationalized AI Productivity at Scale. How did Salesforce get thousands of their engineers to productively use AI? Here’s a look at their approach.
[blog] AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome. Wow. Here’s a new AI tool for predicting impact of variants and mutations in DNA.
[article] AI and Tech Jobs: More Evidence That Panic Isn’t Justified. More jobs being created than going away, but it’s still murky as to how companies are evaluating their plans.
[blog] Where should AI sit in your UI? Very cool work that explores different AI UI patterns and the benefits and limitations of each.
[blog] Do AI Code Review Tools Work, or Just Pretend? Kate does some great work here assessing the current landscape of code review tools and what developers think of them.
[article] Report Shows Overinflated Opinion of Infrastructure Automation Excellence. Many think they’re doing expert level infrastructure automation, but most don’t seem to actually doing it.
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