It’s good to be back at my home office today, even if I feel like I’m running at 70% after last week’s international adventure. Fun reading list today!

[article] Gemini CLI, Explained: Everything You Need to Know About Google’s Free AI Coding Agent (https://www.theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/gemini-cli-explained-everything-you-need-to-know-about-googles-free-coding-agent/). Excellent profile of Gemini CLI’s creator, and our momentum with the Gemini CLI.

[blog] Safeguarding Dynamic Configuration Changes at Scale (https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/safeguarding-dynamic-configuration-changes-at-scale-5aca5222ed68). Configuration changes shouldn’t be exciting. Ideally, it’s boring and completely stress-free. That’s only the case if you’ve got a great system in place. Here’s what Airbnb does.

[blog] How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks (https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-used-cursor-to-migrate-frameworks). Good example of guiding a step-by-step upgrade of a web project’s dependencies.

[blog] Introducing the 185 Organizations for GSoC 2026 (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/02/introducing-the-185-organizations-for-gsoc-2026.html). This amazing program brings new contributors to established open source projects for mentoring.

[blog] Better code, fewer tokens: Introducing Agent Skills for Firebase (https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/02/ai-agent-skills-for-firebase/). Study best practices for your preferred product, tool, or framework. And then you can use something like Agent Skills to ensure you take advantage of those practices.

[article] Half the AI Agent Market Is One Category. The Rest Is Wide Open (https://garryslist.org/posts/half-the-ai-agent-market-is-one-category-the-rest-is-wide-open). There’s so much open territory for entrepreneur types. Tons of untapped domains that can take advantage of AI agents.

[blog] Teaching AI to read a map (https://research.google/blog/teaching-ai-to-read-a-map/). Why can’t AI systems read maps very well? Their training sets don’t include much on the rules of navigation. Here’s new Google Research that shows a solution.

[article] State of Containers and Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-containers-and-serverless/). This latest report from Datadog has some new data points about who is doing what with Kubernetes, containers, and serverless runtimes.

[blog] Get ready for Google I/O 2026 (https://developers.googleblog.com/get-ready-for-google-io-2026/). Short post, but it’s about us getting the date out there for I/O.

[blog] The Agentic Web is Here: How WebMCP Transforms Websites into AI Toolkits (https://medium.com/google-cloud/the-agentic-web-is-here-how-webmcp-transforms-websites-into-ai-toolkits-be5453f4364e). I’m getting more bullish on this browser feature every time I read something about it. Seems like a much more dependable way for AI agents to work with browser than Computer Use options.

[blog] This Week in Open Source #15 (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/02/this-week-in-open-source-15.html). This is turning into quite the reliable look at what events and news are impacting the open source ecosystem.

[blog] Which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents? (https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-web-frameworks-are-most-token-efficient-for-ai-agents) Useful topic. When you’re building with your favorite web framework, does it take a lot of tokens to figure it out? Minimal frameworks performed well here.

[article] The Unreachable Engineering Managers (https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-unreachable-engineering-managers). Slow is worse than off. An unreachable manager is much worse than one on vacation. We have to work hard to stay available and avoid becoming a bottleneck.

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