I try say “yes” to customer presentation requests whenever possible. It gives me an excuse to try out new messaging, gather new context from real users, and build demo systems. I might have overdone it this week as I’m doing some new types of talks with little notice. What could go wrong?

[blog] The Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 (https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/android-show-io-edition-2026/). So many cool updates today! From more proactive AI to new Googlebook laptops, we shipped some fun stuff.

[article] The Best Leaders Embrace the Role of Supporting Character (https://hbr.org/2026/05/the-best-leaders-embrace-the-role-of-supporting-character). Main-character energy doesn’t help your team. Serve others, be curious, and yes, still inspire and steer the team the right way.

[article] Symptoms of Bad Software Design (https://newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/symptoms-of-bad-software-design). Call it tech debt, or maybe just the wrong decisions. Either way, you want to tackle these areas if you hope to scale or reduce operational cost.

[blog] Google Antigravity beats Claude at coding—but only if you stop acting like a programmer (https://www.howtogeek.com/google-antigravity-beats-claude-at-codingbut-only-if-you-stop-acting-like-a-programmer/). It’s a great tool. They all have merit. But you’ll want to change your workflow, not cram your existing one into these tools.

[article] How do Next Edit Suggestions in AI-integrated IDEs introduce new security risks? (https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-142-how-do-next-edit-suggestions) We’ve moved beyond tab completion, but this guidance still holds when you’re generating whole swaths of code at once.

[blog] Debugging Event-Driven Systems: 5 Problems Teams Create (https://codeopinion.com/debugging-event-driven-systems-5-problems-teams-create/). Good pattern, but it’s not your whole architecture, as Derek explains here.

[article] How corporate politics actually work (https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/how-corporate-politics-actually-work). Your situation could be different, but I’d imagine we all have something to take away from the many lessons shared here.

[blog] MCP Configuration for Google Workspace with Gemini CLI (https://medium.com/google-cloud/mcp-configuration-for-google-workspace-with-gemini-cli-ead9ebdc5903). Useful example with instructions I haven’t seen elsewhere. William also uses this newsletter as an example, so how can I not read the post?

[article] Fighting Tool Sprawl: The Case for AI Tool Registries (https://www.oreilly.com/radar/fighting-tool-sprawl-the-case-for-ai-tool-registries/). The solutions aren’t super mature at the moment, but I buy that shared tool registries are important.

[blog] Top 15 CI/CD Metrics: What to Track & Why They Matter (https://spacelift.io/blog/ci-cd-metrics). I can’t imagine that too many people are tracking ALL of these, but it’s a good list to pick from.

[article] What happens when engineering teams reorganize around AI agents (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4169041/what-happens-when-engineering-teams-reorganize-around-ai-agents.html). This article offers up quick bursts of advice from different teams adopting AI agents.

[blog] If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python? (https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055) Would you? Or something else entirely suited to the specific use case?

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