I’m back at work today and was planning on making a quick trip up to Mountain View for a work meeting. But since I’m solo dad-ing this week and the kid just caught a cold, I’m staying home with him instead. On the plus side, my day is WIDE open tomorrow now!

[article] Cursor’s $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model (https://thenewstack.io/cursor-sdk-harness/). This is the year of the harness. That orchestration and judgement layer is where we’re all making big investments.

[article] 13 CTOs walk into a bar and realize: There is no best AI adoption strategy (https://shiftmag.dev/cto-ai-adoption-strategy-9477/). There’s no universal playbook, or “right” way to do everything with AI. It’s contextual to your business goals, talent on staff, and prior tech investments.

[blog] Run multiple coding agents safely with git worktrees (https://medium.com/google-cloud/run-multiple-coding-agents-safely-with-git-worktrees-c2d237dbd6b2). Work on a few branches simultaneously. This matters even more now when one person might be coordinating a handful of agents working on the same codebase.

[article] Documentation is Dead. Long Live Documentation (https://devops.com/documentation-is-dead-long-live-documentation/). This is referring more to project artifacts that should be a side effect of the work, not a separate activity.

[blog] Firestore at Next ’26: Unlock agentic development, search and MongoDB compatibility (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/firestore-agentic-ai-search-and-mongodb-compatibility/). This is an underrated database that only gets better. Check out what’s new and interesting.

[blog] Why Startups Are Choosing Flutter Over Native in 2026: A CTO’s Perspective (https://technotalkative.com/why-startups-choosing-flutter-over-native/). Cross-platform frameworks are attractive, but it’s ok to be skeptical. Flutter has proven itself to be particularly strong if your building for multiple mobile platforms.

[article] Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch (https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/02/beyond-lovable-and-mistral-21-european-startups-to-watch/). Speaking of startups, there are ones around the world worth keeping an eye on.

[blog] Trunk-Based Development: Your Pull Requests Are Still Too Big (https://codecraftdiary.com/2026/04/29/trunk-based-development-your-pull-requests-are-still-too-big). You think your quality is better because humans review the code themselves? Not if the PRs are enormous. Here’s why you want smaller ones, and how to change your approach.

[blog] What you’re actually writing when you write a SKILL.md (https://internals.laxmena.com/p/what-youre-actually-writing-when). I like how this post positions Skills and how you pay the cost of poorly written ones.

[blog] Supercharging LLM inference on Google TPUs: Achieving 3X speedups with diffusion-style speculative decoding (https://developers.googleblog.com/supercharging-llm-inference-on-google-tpus-achieving-3x-speedups-with-diffusion-style-speculative-decoding/). Some excellent research and progress here towards improved model performance.

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