Daily Reading List – May 22, 2025 (#558)

I’m catching up after a few days in Mountain View and starting to clear out the reading queue. Still a ways to go. Enjoy today’s list!

[blog] Vibing at Home. I like seeing people share their own experiences. Those who only pontificate online about AI coding are losing credibility with me. At least try it yourself before lamenting or praising it!

[blog] Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI. Folks were eagerly awaiting these updated models from Anthropic. They look powerful.

[blog] Build Powerful, Stateful AI Agents in Java with Agent Development Kit (ADK). Abi does a great walkthrough of a realistic agent scenario and how the new Java ADK pulls it together.

[blog] JUDE: LLM-based representation learning for LinkedIn job recommendations. A look at how LinkedIn uses LLMs for better job recommendations.

[article] Stitch is Google’s AI-powered tool to help design apps. This is definitely on my “to play with” list. Designers have so many AI tools at their disposal.

[youtube-video] Redis just blew it and the alternative is way better… Hot take! But a strong case for why things don’t go back to the way they were just because of a license reset.

[blog] What’s new in Firebase at I/O 2025. The Firebase team is cooking right now. Check out this post to see all the ways that modern app dev is boosted with Firebase.

[article] How to Delegate to Someone Who Doesn’t Report to You. This is a good skill to develop. You often can’t MAKE someone do something, but you can smartly shift the work.

[blog] Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application. Many details and code samples in this post from Josh. He covers many important dimensions like observability and security too.

[blog] Advancing sovereignty, choice, and security in the cloud for our customers. We’ve been investing for years in creative and comprehensive sovereign solutions and that’s coming to fruition now.

[blog] Secure A2A Authentication with Auth0 and Google Cloud. With MCP and A2A solidifying into accepted standards, now the important part comes: defining robust security patterns.

[blog] AI deployment made easy: Deploy your app to Cloud Run from AI Studio or MCP-compatible AI agents. I showed these in my blog post from yesterday. These Cloud Run leaders give it a more extensive treatment.

[blog] What’s new in Flutter 3.32. These seem like valuable updates. For those building cross-platform mobile or web apps, Flutter remains a great choice.

[blog] 100 things we announced at I/O. Good recap, including a couple of things I hadn’t noticed myself.

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