Daily Reading List – August 13, 2026 (#845)
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Google is a big, successful company, so I can’t really play the “underdog” card. But I’m glad to see us rocket back to (influencer) relevance with today’s Gemini 3.7 Flash launch. Great model.
[blog] Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash. Surprise! We just shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, but we’re picking up the pace. And this one is notably better at coding and agentic sessions.
[blog] Reviewing code is a skill. Definitely. It’s something you can get better at my practicing, and something that can be taught to others.
[article] Netflix Adopts Cloud-Native Job Queueing System Kueue to Replace an In-House Solution. This subsystem has been around nearly four years, and I’m happy to see major adoption of it.
[article] Introduction to Post-training. Very educational post. I’m far from an expert (or even functional) on the details of pre and post training.
[blog] Vertical slices, their ownership and external dependencies. I like this pattern for building, but there are ways it goes sideways. This post looks at how to manage externa dependencies.
[blog] Loop driven development with Antigravity CLI. Shocking to say, but sometimes you should just use code instead of twisting your AI harness to fit every task.
[article] Google says Go is well suited to AI-generated code. That’s true, we do say that. I got a lot of value from reading the various comments (positive and negative) to our push on this topic.
[article] How Today’s CEOs Can Prepare for Tomorrow’s Crises. I. like the point that we’ll never be an expert at everything, but we can be good at asking the right questions.
[blog] WIBTM: Give an agent access to memories created with AI dreams. Session telemetry (and trajectories) become “dreams” that fold into long-term memory. Comes in handy for later sessions.
[blog] Serverless LLM Blueprint: Build a Fine-Tuning & Serving Platform on Google Cloud. Do serving yourself—as in, not a single managed API—but with entirely managed services that only charge compute when in use? Good pattern.
[blog] The Artifact is Free, Assurance is the Product. Indeed, but even then, the provider can only assure so much.
[blog] Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas. Why build an app or dashboard separate from your source data (spreadsheet) if you can just do it all together? Pretty sweet experience.
[article] Technical Debt in the AI Era. Good research piece that asks whether our prior approach to technical debt still matters now that we have AI. Short answer: yes.
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