Daily Reading List – June 26, 2025 (#576)
Another wild day. I’m doing some research into what other people think modern, AI-driven coding looks like. May turn my findings into a blog post. Either way, a new work style is forming.
[blog] Choosing the Right Deployment Path for Your Google ADK Agents. Fantastic post from Ayo that explores three agent hosts with different value propositions. You’ll likely debate their three types of platforms, regardless of which cloud you use.
[blog] 6 ways to become a database pro with the Gemini CLI. It’s a mistake to lump these agentic CLIs into a “coding tools” bucket. You can do a lot more than code apps. Karl shows some great data-focused examples here.
[blog] What Diff Authoring Time (DAT) reveals about developer experience. What’s going on from that moment a developer makes their first edit, until a pull request gets created? How do we measure that and improve the experience? Here’s analysis of some recent research.
[blog] Making it easier to scale Kafka workloads with Cloud Run worker pools. This is extremely interesting to me. Worker pools give you continuous background processing, and this new autoscaler for Kafka pairs up perfectly with these worker pools.
[blog] Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices. Here we go. Get a powerful vision language action model running locally on your robot.
[article] How To Prepare Your API for AI Agents. If you actually have an API strategy, you’re already ahead of others. This article has some advice for what to focus on.
[blog] Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide. Excellent content here. It’s a comprehensive look at what’s new, and also provides tons of links for exploration.
[blog] I don’t care if my manager writes code. Should engineering managers be committing code alongside their reports? No, that doesn’t seem very wise or sustainable. But I do want my management to deeply know the tech the team is using.
[article] Enterprises must rethink IAM as AI agents outnumber humans 10 to 1. Speaking of agents, there’s a re-think of identity management coming.
[article] Replit democratizes software development with Claude on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Anthropic added this case study to their roster, and it’s a great story of using your choice of model.
[article] Google positions itself for ‘next decade’ of AI as Gemini CLI arrives with generous free tier. We’ll see what happens, but we’re positioned well to be the best option for those building with AI.
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