Lots of “hard truth” in today’s reading list. A lot of people came out hot from the Easter weekend. Dig in.

[blog] “Good Taste” Is Just Experience (https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/27/good-taste-is-just-experience). You’re not born with it. You put in the work to get experience to help you apply good judgement to a situation.

[article] To Succeed with AI, You’ve Got to Nail the Basics (https://hbr.org/2026/04/to-succeed-with-ai-youve-got-to-nail-the-basics). This article lists five basics that matter. If you don’t address those, no amount of AI window dressing will change anything.

[blog] The Surprisingly Simple Way to Create an A2A Agent with ADK, Deploy on Cloud Run, and Register with Gemini Enterprise (https://medium.com/google-cloud/surprisingly-simple-a2a-agents-with-adk-using-to-a2a-deploy-to-cloud-run-and-gemini-enterprise-e815bdef4a32). One SDK command to generate the agent card and such needed to make an agent discoverable? Good example here of creating and surfacing an agent.

[article] Cursor’s $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default (https://thenewstack.io/cursor-3-demotes-ide/). I like the pointed takes here from Jani. The VS Code moat is drying up, the IDE is a secondary lens, and the work continues to change.

[blog] How Claude Code Builds a System Prompt (https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/04/how-claude-code-builds-a-system-prompt.html). Nice analysis of the leaked Claude Code system prompt. It might change how you approach your own agent instructions.

[blog] Anthropic cuts off the ability to use Claude subscriptions with OpenClaw and third-party AI agents (https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-cuts-off-the-ability-to-use-claude-subscriptions-with-openclaw-and). We’re all making the same tradeoffs right now. Enabling explorers is awesome, but if it’s limiting your ability to offer services to major paying customers, you gotta make a move. More (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/).

[blog] Stop Writing Go Like It’s Java: 5 Patterns You Need to Unlearn (https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/stop-writing-go-like-its-java-5-patterns-you-need-to-unlearn-4l2a). Very specific advice. It’s easy to copy your patterns from one language to another before realizing you’re doing it wrong.

[blog] Go Project Structure for Humans: No, You Don’t Need 15 Directories (https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/go-project-structure-for-humans-no-you-dont-need-15-directories-2k36). I’ve seen plenty of canonical examples of project directories for any given language. But do you need all that?

[article] The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development? (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-is-github-still-best-for-ai-native-development/) I think you have to ask the question. Stalwarts in developer tech (VS Code and GitHub) all of a sudden feel very wobbly.

[article] No Offense (https://robertglazer.substack.com/p/friday-forward-no-offense-530). Are you unoffendable? If so, kudos. Going into situations with that stance (versus the more visible opposite) leads to much higher quality interactions.

[article] How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars (https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion). It’s a multi-part article series written by a former employee. Pretty wild.

[article] Multi-agent AI is the new microservices (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4154335/multi-agent-ai-is-the-new-microservices.html). Matt brings the heat with this one. Like previous trends, we’re probably over-engineering AI agents already.

[blog] Et Tu, Agent? Did You Install the Backdoor? (https://www.a16z.news/p/et-tu-agent-did-you-install-the-backdoor) The takeaway for me was the point that “modern-day security tooling looks for the wrong things.”

[article] NASA’s Artemis II crew just flew farther away from Earth than anyone ever has before (https://www.engadget.com/science/space/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-just-flew-farther-away-from-earth-than-anyone-ever-has-before-180259867.html). Heck yeah. Sometimes you just need to accomplish badass things.

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