I’m in Las Vegas this week for Google Cloud Next ’26, and spent the last two (full) days in various keynote rehearsals. Fun stuff with people I enjoy hanging out with.

[blog] The Agent Stack Bet (https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-agent-stack-bet). Important post. Have we given agents too much … agency? Addy calls out four architectural bets to make to get back in control.

[blog] How to hire people who are better than you (https://longform.asmartbear.com/hire-better-than-you/). Great stuff if you’re trying to improve who and how you hire. Which I think is all of us!

[blog] From operational to analytical: The unified Spanner Graph and BigQuery Graph solution (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/the-unified-graph-solution-with-spanner-graph-and-bigquery-graph). I haven’t used many graph databases, but it seems convenient to have these capabilities built into database engines I already use.

[article] When Your Ambition Starts to Exhaust You (https://hbr.org/2026/04/when-your-ambition-starts-to-exhaust-you). These are five helpful questions to ask yourself.

[guide] Multi-agent private networking patterns in Google Cloud (https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/multi-agent-private-networking-patterns). Very good content here for anyone working through multi-agent setups.

[article] ‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/tokenmaxxing-is-making-developers-less-productive-than-they-think/). I understand why some think this is a good proxy metric for meaningful adoption internally. But it’s far from an indicator of excellence.

[blog] Designing synthetic datasets for the real world: Mechanism design and reasoning from first principles (https://research.google/blog/designing-synthetic-datasets-for-the-real-world-mechanism-design-and-reasoning-from-first-principles/). Here’s a new Google Research project that produces better synthetic datasets with the help of AI.

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