I had four spontaneous meetings today, all on different topics. It’s important to me to have flex in my calendar so I can tackle things that pop up on a given day. But, it does contribute to a more chaotic schedule. Do you keep slack in the day, or schedule people out on days where you’re officially “open”?

[blog] Beyond one-on-one: Authoring, simulating, and testing dynamic human-AI group conversations (https://research.google/blog/beyond-one-on-one-authoring-simulating-and-testing-dynamic-human-ai-group-conversations/). This is bonkers and super cool. Google did research into group conversations and open sourced a framework and tool to create and run these workflows.

[blog] Ship types, not docs (https://shiptypes.com/). Good message. This is one reason our Google Cloud reference API docs are auto-generated when upstream protobuf definitions change. Need to keep this all in sync!

[blog] An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/). Yeah, this is a pretty crazy story. An agent gets a PR refused, and it writes a takedown post about the maintainer!

[blog] Five key recommendations for platform teams in 2026 (https://platformengineering.org/blog/five-key-recommendations-for-platform-teams-in-202). Except for #5, these have been oft-repeated recommendations for years now.

[blog] Don’t Make Them Wait: Improving AI UX with Streaming Thoughts (https://nohe.dev/posts/2026/02/operational-transparency). We’re all impatient, even when waiting for a magic LLM to deliver magic answers. This is a good post about maintaining engagement by streaming thoughts back to the user.

[blog] 7 Technical Takeaways from Using Gemini to Generate Code Samples at Scale. (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/7-technical-takeaways-from-using-gemini-to-generate-code-samples-at-scale/) A year ago, we started on an effort to responsibly use AI to help build and maintain our code sample portfolio. Here’s a check-in.

[blog] Agents Can Either Be Useful or Secure (https://auth0.com/blog/agents-can-be-useful-or-secure/). It’s time to rethink authorization approaches and how you secure your systems.

[artice] Your Strategy Needs a Visual Metaphor (https://hbr.org/2026/02/your-strategy-needs-a-visual-metaphor). Break up your dense, complex, and boring strategies with a compelling visual. AI tools are genuinely helpful here.

[blog] I Built an Agent Skill for Google’s ADK — Here’s Why Your Coding Agent Needs One Too (https://medium.com/google-cloud/i-built-an-agent-skill-for-googles-adk-here-s-why-your-coding-agent-needs-one-too-e5d3a56ef81b). I’d like to see frameworks come with Skills or whatever can help agentic tools use those frameworks more effectively.

[article] The death of reactive IT: How predictive engineering will redefine cloud performance in 10 years (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4130304/the-death-of-reactive-it-how-predictive-engineering-will-redefine-cloud-performance-in-10-years.html). Our platforms will absolutely become more autonomous and proactive in handling operational tasks.

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