Today got away from me. I just looked up and it’s 5pm. I’m taking a half-day tomorrow to head out on a short vacation, so expect an earlier-than-usual reading list publication.

[article] Google ADK Opens the Door to AI Agents That Work Inside Your DevOps Toolchain (https://devops.com/google-adk-opens-the-door-to-ai-agents-that-work-inside-your-devops-toolchain/). When you can build agents that easily connect to your most important dev tooling, you open up a lot of possibilities for automation.

[article] You Should Take That “Boring” Meeting (https://hbr.org/2026/03/you-should-take-that-boring-meeting). Apparently we underestimate how interesting a “boring” meeting can be. Maybe?

[article] An ode to craftsmanship in software development (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4140156/an-ode-to-craftsmanship-in-software-development.html). I get you. Maybe that beautifully designed algorithm or flawless project structure was never the art of software.

[blog] Grow your own way: Introducing native support for custom metrics in GKE (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-now-supports-custom-metrics-natively/). Autoscaling is amazing, but you should be able to trigger it based on your own metrics. Now you can.

[blog] Three AI Blind Spots That Cost You Developers (https://everydeveloper.com/ai-blind-spots/). No one will find our use your product correctly if you describe it using weird corporate talk. Are you writing for humans and agents right now?

[article] Does using AI to code come at the cost of learning? (https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-133-does-using-ai-to-code-come) Good post. We’re not doing deep learning if we rush through an exercise with AI doing it all. Maybe that’s fine for a subset of tasks, but recognize when you need to really absorb something.

[blog] Integrate NotebookLM with Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity or Other Agents with MCP (https://medium.com/google-cloud/integrate-notebooklm-with-gemini-cli-google-antigravity-or-other-agents-with-mcp-cd83b575dc39). Creative use of private APIs! I don’t think we officially support this scenario, but life finds a way.

[blog] A Monorepo Is NOT a Monolith (https://nx.dev/blog/monorepo-is-not-monolith). If you’re using a monorepo for all your code, does that mean you have a monolithic, tightly-coupled system? It does not.

[article] Does AGENTS.md Actually Help Coding Agents? (https://nlp.elvissaravia.com/p/does-agentsmd-actually-help-coding) Apparently LLM-generated instructions don’t help nearly as much as human-written ones.

[blog] The ultimate Nano Banana prompting guide (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/ultimate-prompting-guide-for-nano-banana/). These are great tips for how to structure prompts to our image model.

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