Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings
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Daily Reading List – May 19, 2026 (#787)
19 May 2026
Today's links look at all the developer capabilities we shipped at Google I/O, why most teams are building agent skills wrong, and the hard parts of multicloud.
Daily Reading List – May 18, 2026 (#786)
18 May 2026
Today's links look at the strategic use of open source, why you shouldn't outsource learning to AI, and why what you know about scaling web apps doesn't apply to scaling LLMs.
Daily Reading List – May 15, 2026 (#785)
15 May 2026
Today's links look at where devs want to spend time with AI, what happens when software becomes headless, and why you should consider Kubernetes for your AI agent.
Daily Reading List – May 14, 2026 (#784)
14 May 2026
Today's links look at whether to use MCP or CLIs, why tokenmaxxing is dumb, and how to build long-running agents that don't lose context.
Daily Reading List – May 13, 2026 (#783)
14 May 2026
Today's links look at what to do when your brain runs out of RAM, why your AI problem is a data problem, and how to escape from the (human in the) agentic loop.
Daily Reading List – May 12, 2026 (#782)
13 May 2026
Today's links look at all the new hotness from Android, why the best leaders embrace the role of *supporting* character, and what happens when teams reorganize around AI agents.
Daily Reading List – May 11, 2026 (#781)
11 May 2026
Today's links look at how to provide leadership in AI-assisted engineering teams, how fast-growing teams can make better decisions, and why tokenmaxxing is the result of misaligned incentives.
Daily Reading List – May 8, 2026 (#780)
8 May 2026
Today's links look at what happens if you give in to Cognitive Surrender with AI, why the 'AI Job Apocalypse' is complete fantasy, and what it means to have write-only code coming out of your AI
Daily Reading List – May 7, 2026 (#779)
8 May 2026
Today's links look at why SaaS freemium playbooks don't work in AI, how to design front-end systems for cloud failure, and why coding with AI agents is a baseline expectations for tech managers.
Daily Reading List – May 6, 2026 (#778)
6 May 2026
Today's links look at how to be direct AND strategic in communication, how to design an AI-native engineering org, and why you improve AI agents through better evals.
How to force your custom agent to stop and seek human approval
6 May 2026
Autonomous agents are cool and all, but we all know there are plenty of circumstances where we want human review. Your custom built agent might have instructions to stop and get input, but that
Daily Reading List – May 5, 2026 (#777)
5 May 2026
Today's links look at what happens when 1500 agents hit production at Uber, what a map of system topologies looks like, and how AI is finding 20-year-old bugs in mature software.
Daily Reading List – May 4, 2026 (#776)
4 May 2026
Today's links look at why startups are choosing Flutter in 2026, how to run multiple coding agents safely with git worktrees, and why your pull requests are still too big.
Daily Reading List – May 1, 2026 (#775)
1 May 2026
Today's links look at why databases weren't designed for AI workflows, some lessons learned building MCP servers, and who's giving AI agents the keys to the cloud.
Daily Reading List – April 30, 2026 (#774)
30 Apr 2026
Today's links look at what's different about long-running agents, why AI productivity gains are more modest than expected, and how you can easily generate files in Gemini.
Daily Reading List – April 29, 2026 (#773)
29 Apr 2026
Today's links look at using agents to create agents, what generative UI is actually about, and a thousand real-world AI use cases from actual companies.
Daily Reading List – April 28, 2026 (#772)
28 Apr 2026
Today's links look at what Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian thinks about this agentic moment, how the OODA loop applies to AI coding, and which agentic memory pattern to use.
Daily Reading List – April 27, 2026 (#771)
27 Apr 2026
Today's links look at twenty software engineering laws, building agents that learn from experience, and how to improve your writing.
Daily Reading List – April 24, 2026 (#770)
24 Apr 2026
Today's links look at day 2 of Google Cloud Next, what cognitive debt is all about, and the weird new trend of tokenmaxxing.
Daily Reading List – April 22, 2026 (#769)
23 Apr 2026
Today's links look at Google Cloud Next announcements, principles for managing up, and a guide to five agent payment protocols.
Daily Reading List – April 21, 2026 (#768)
21 Apr 2026
Today's links look at agent harness engineering, working with sub agents, and how to fine-tune LLMs in 2026.
Daily Reading List – April 20, 2026 (#767)
20 Apr 2026
Today's links look at four architectural bets for your agent stack, how to implement multi-agent networking patterns, and why tokenmaxxing is making devs less productive than they think.
Daily Reading List – April 17, 2026 (#766)
17 Apr 2026
Today's links look at Salesforce going headless, celebrating a year of the Agent2Agent Protocol, and why be sleep-deprived is a dangerous thing.
Daily Reading List – April 16, 2026 (#765)
16 Apr 2026
Today's links look at where developer wisdom comes from now, what happens when AI writes code faster than we can verify it, and why web dev in Dart might be a good idea.
Daily Reading List – April 15, 2026 (#764)
15 Apr 2026
Today's links look at how to get developers to read the docs, why great teams can't be copied, and how to set up Claude Code with Vertex AI.
Daily Reading List – April 14, 2026 (#763)
15 Apr 2026
Today's links look at performing agentic engine optimization (AEO) on your content, what productive procrastination looks like, and bringing graph semantics to your data warehouse.
Daily Reading List – April 13, 2026 (#762)
13 Apr 2026
Today's links look at which stage of the agentic SDLC uses the most tokens, how to best write agent skills, and whether AI certs are worth the investment.
You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?
13 Apr 2026
Throughout my tech career, I’ve been taught to be cautious about where I stash business logic. I now reflexively think about putting important rules and considerations into central services. Could
Daily Reading List – April 10, 2026 (#761)
10 Apr 2026
Today's links look at what's really happening with AI adoption in the enterprise, why there's a hidden cost of comfort, and how to study for finals with Gemini.
Daily Reading List – April 9, 2026 (#760)
9 Apr 2026
Today's links look at the epidemic of bloated web pages, when you hit your ceiling on parallel agents, and how developer ramp-up time keeps getting shorter.
Daily Reading List – April 8, 2026 (#759)
9 Apr 2026
Today's links look at the 2nd phase of agentic development, how to use AI before writing the first line of code, and who's crushing it at delivering sovereign clouds.
Daily Reading List – April 7, 2026 (#758)
8 Apr 2026
Today's links look at the components of a coding harness, how burnout looks across the org chart, and why some prefer MCP over Skills.
Daily Reading List – April 6, 2026 (#757)
6 Apr 2026
Today's links look at why "good taste" is just experience, why the IDE is now a fallback instead of the default, and whether multi-agent AI is the new microservices.
Daily Reading List – April 3, 2026 (#756)
4 Apr 2026
Today's links look at directing a swarm of agents, why Backstage is dead, and exposing AI coding's dependency problem.
Daily Reading List – April 2, 2026 (#755)
3 Apr 2026
Today's links look at what the new Cursor release telegraphs about IDEs, what happens when exec presence backfires, and how modern frameworks are thinking about AI principles.
Daily Reading List – April 1, 2026 (#754)
1 Apr 2026
Today's links look at the state of Java, some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents, and what's next for junior developers.