I’m ready for the weekend and looking forward to downtime. Maybe some tech experiments, but mainly investing my time in a great Easter with the family.

[blog] The New Bottleneck That Will Chill Your AI Vibes (https://cote.io/2026/04/02/the-new-bottleneck-that-will.html). Unless you’re a single-person startup, you’ll want some sort of foundational platform that makes it easier (possible?) to go fast.

[article] Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/coding-agents). I like this collection of observations from Adrian. Those of us who have been in tech for a while can appreciate how he’s looking at the AI world.

[article] Backstage is dead (https://newsletter.port.io/p/backstage-is-dead). Do we need different things from an Internal Developer Platform that what Backstage offered? Yes. It’s a piece, but a platform matters.

[blog] Supporting Google Account username change in your app (https://developers.googleblog.com/supporting-google-account-username-change-in-your-app/). Yes, US users can now change their usernames without losing anything. Is your app ready?

[blog] developer relations after the cheat code machine (https://sunilpai.dev/posts/developer-relations/). I like this. Does instruction (and DevRel) move away from “hello world” and “how to use the thing” towards more apprenticeship-style guidance of how to use the AI tools well? Seems like it.

[blog] Creating a Wikipedia MCP Server in Java in a Few Prompts with Skills (https://glaforge.dev/posts/2026/04/02/creating-a-wikipedia-mcp-server-in-java-in-a-few-prompts/). Just build things. Like your own MCP server for Wikipedia in minutes.

[blog] Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device (https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma4). Hugging Face knows how to write a launch blog. This one for the new Gemma 4 is outstanding.

[blog] Gemma 4: The new standard for local agentic intelligence on Android (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/gemma-4-new-standard-for-local-agentic-intelligence.html). The edge (https://developers.googleblog.com/bring-state-of-the-art-agentic-skills-to-the-edge-with-gemma-4/) and mobile impact of Gemma 4 is huge. But the license change is getting the most positive chatter (https://venturebeat.com/technology/google-releases-gemma-4-under-apache-2-0-and-that-license-change-may-matter).

[blog] We Trained 47 Models and Lost the Best One. Then We Found Vertex AI Experiments (https://medium.com/google-cloud/we-trained-47-models-and-lost-the-best-one-then-we-found-vertex-ai-experiments-92e79276514c). Can you reproduce your model tuning? Looks like many can’t. This is an educational piece on progressing towards smarter experiments.

[article] Axios hack exposes AI-coding’s dependency problem (https://leaddev.com/ai/axios-hack-exposes-ai-codings-dependency-problem). AI-generated code uses a lot of open source references. Are they up to date? Exposing vulnerabilities? Without the right checks in place, you face real risks.

[blog] Run real-time and async inference on the same infrastructure with GKE Inference Gateway (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/unifying-real-time-and-async-inference-with-gke-inference-gateway/). Two key patterns, one set of infrastructure. That’s convenient, and might simplify your architecture.

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