Happy Friday. I do hope you had a productive week, and get the chance to enjoy yourself over the weekend.

[article] AI Adoption by the Numbers (https://www.a16z.news/p/ai-adoption-by-the-numbers). That “95% of AI pilots fail” stat from last year? Feels suspect. This gang looked at data that shows that AI startups are finding real success in the enterprise.

[article] AAIF’s MCP Dev Summit: Gateways, gRPC, and Observability Signal Protocol Hardening (https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/aaif-mcp-summit/). Good crowd at this MCP event, with clear signs that MCP is becoming a serious part of vendor and enterprise stacks.

[blog] Mastering Gemini CLI Subagents: Part 1 (https://medium.com/google-cloud/mastering-gemini-cli-subagents-part-1-a4666091c154). I learned a couple of things from this post about sub-agents and when to use them.

[article] With Claude Managed Agents, Anthropic wants to run your AI agents for you (https://thenewstack.io/with-claude-managed-agents-anthropic-wants-to-run-your-ai-agents-for-you/). Anthropic just shipped this beta service. Every vendor seemingly wants you to run agents on (or through) their platform. Makes sense to me.

[blog] QueryData helps agents turn natural language into queries for AlloyDB, Cloud SQL and Spanner (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-querydata-for-near-100-percent-accurate-data-agents/). Pretty sweet API that could be useful in a lot of different app scenarios.

[blog] Docs are Dead. Long Live the Docs (https://platform.uno/blog/docs-dead-long-live-docs/). Trusted sources of truth matter now more than ever. Documentation is important. The interfaces changed.

[blog] The Hidden Cost of Comfort (https://thegrowtheq.com/the-hidden-cost-of-comfort/). We’re drowning out important signals of discomfort that help us build resulting resilience.

[blog] Agent Skills Are the New SDK (And You Should Be Building One) (https://www.battery.com/blog/agent-skills-are-the-new-sdk-and-you-should-be-building-one/). Very good argument for having a skills strategy that customers can benefit from.

[blog] How Estée Lauder Companies uses Cloud Run worker pools for its pull-based agentic workloads (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-worker-pools-at-estee-lauder-companies/). Good pattern here for ensuring you deliver a more consistent experience for web users that take advantage of LLM features.

[blog] 6 easy ways to study for finals with Gemini (https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/gemini-finals-study-tips/). Don’t use AI to skip the work. Use it to do better work.

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