I spent time today with our team’s head of engineering for Google-sponsored languages. Dart (https://dart.dev/) has an interesting history, and is critical to some key services from Google. I’m going to hack around with it this weeken (https://dartpad.dev/)d.

[article] Cognitive Surrender (https://addyosmani.com/blog/cognitive-surrender/). This is when the AI’s output becomes your output. It leads to cognitive debt. Where might you allow yourself your surrender, and how do you protect against it?

[article] The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy (https://www.a16z.news/p/the-ai-job-apocalypse-is-a-complete). You might roll your eyes at this headline in the face of the stream of “the business is great but we’re laying people off because of AI” stories (see: Cloudflare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/)). But the amount of work to be done isn’t fixed, and this post brings some receipts from the recent past.

[article] Tech job postings hit 3-year high (https://www.ciodive.com/news/tech-job-postings-hit-3-year-high-april/819778/). Tons of open tech jobs, with more added each month. A reconfiguration doesn’t mean the work goes away.

[article] The stuff nobody tells you about startup marketing (https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/the-stuff-nobody-tells-you-about). We’re all in sales and marketing, whether we realize it or not. Good advice here for those trying to land their startup products.

[blog] Automating modernization: Migrating legacy Express to Next.js with Google Antigravity & AI Agents (https://javascript.plainenglish.io/migrating-express-to-next-js-using-ai-agents-antigravity-f48b4c206a8e). Constructive journey through a modernization scenario. I’ve seen a few of those this week, and skills + agent teams is proving to be a strong pattern.

[article] The company that made RAG mainstream is now betting against it (https://thenewstack.io/pinecone-nexus-rag-obsolete/). The half-life of a “best practice” in this industry is like 3 months. Pinecone who got famous as a vector database serving RAG use cases, now pushes knowledge upstream into artifacts used by agents.

[blog] With faster node startup for GKE, say goodbye to cold-start latency (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-node-startup-gets-faster/). New provisioning logic means your Kubernetes nodes come online even faster now.

[blog] New Bigtable in-memory tier for sub-millisecond read latency (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/scaling-real-time-performance-with-bigtable-in-memory-tier/). This might already be the highest performing database on the Internet, and now it can be even faster.

[blog] Write-Only Code (https://www.heavybit.com/library/article/write-only-code). Is this the final-boss of agentic coding? Maybe. If you are comfortable with this, you’ve knocked down every concern. Or you’ve embraced YOLO engineering.

[article] 10 Hacks Every Google Meet User Should Know (https://lifehacker.com/tech/hacks-every-google-meet-user-should-know). Some of us spend a lot of time in virtual meetings. I’m grateful each day that I get to use Meet.

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