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Daily Reading List – May 27, 2026 (#792)

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Big reading list today, and many of the items are articles with some important insights.

[blog] Gemini Managed Agents: Developer Guide. I tried this out last week and plan to spend more time with it. I’m impressed by how rich this service is for executing custom agents.

[article] The role of MCP in context engineering. You can overuse it, or underuse it. But MCP has legit value and it’s different value than what skills or CLIs do.

[article] Amid heavy AI use, workers say their skills are atrophying. This is the risk. If you use AI to do your job, instead of making you better at your job, you’re going to feel unsettled.

[blog] A Practical Guide to Evaluating Multi-Turn Agent Trajectories. You can’t just look at success/fail for your agent. Especially if they’re long-running. Karl offers good advice about what to look for.

[article] Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis. Don’t let one demo or hands-on effort delude you into thinking AI can do everything for everyone. Really understand what it can (and can’t!) do.

[article] Choosing to Stay Human. Notable writeup by Ethan that talks about what happens when we offload the wrong work to AI.

[blog] Build new features using built-in AI in Chrome. It’s fairly easy to build apps that take advantage of Chrome’s built-in AI model.

[article] Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI. Is authorization adapting as fast as it needs to? Probably not. This article explains the problem and what solutions are emerging.

[blog] Securing AI agents with MCP Authorization. Here’s one improvement on authorization to key data and tools.

[article] How the AC/DC framework helps teams govern AI coding agents. The Agent Centric Development Cycle framework explains how agent development works at scale. Supposedly. Some valid points here!

[blog] Building an AI-Native CI/CD Experience with sem-ai. These seemed like fresh thoughts on what’s needed for modern CI/CD.

[blog] Getting Started with Antigravity 2.0. Most comprehensive post I’ve seen yet! Romin explains so many of the parts of this updated agentic coding tool.

[article] Managers Are Struggling to Keep Up with the AI Productivity Boom. An “always-on review environment.” I feel that. Best article I read today.

[article] Google made agentic AI governance a product. Enterprises still have to catch up. Great to see some journalists notice the deeper investments we’ve been making. Hard for others to replicate!

[blog] Running agents in production with Google’s Gemini Managed Agents. Cool post from Weights & Balances on a real use case for our Managed Agents service.

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Dive deeper into I/O 2026 with NotebookLM.

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Find out what you might have missed and go deeper on all the big announcements from Google I/O 2026 using NotebookLM.
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Microsoft Extends Rust-Influenced Memory-Safety Push to C#

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Microsoft is applying lessons from Rust to C# in a planned redesign of the unsafe code model, continuing a years-long company focus on reducing memory-safety risks historically associated with C and C++
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Less // TODO: more done with GitHub Copilot CLI

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From: GitHub
Duration: 27:03
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Take a deeper dive into GitHub Copilot CLI and how it helps developers move from // TODOs to completed work faster. We’ll explore practical ideas for using Copilot in the terminal across everyday developer workloads, from understanding commands to scaffolding, debugging, and automating repetitive tasks. You’ll leave with a clearer view of how Copilot CLI fits into your agenda and can streamline the way you build, fix, and ship from the command line.

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Build with the Copilot CLI - Mona Mayhem

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Duration: 50:22
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Build a hands-on project with GitHub Copilot CLI by creating a “battle” website that compares two GitHub profiles and their contributions. Starting from an empty folder, we’ll use Copilot to scaffold, iterate, and connect a complete backend and frontend experience. By the end, you’ll have a fully running local web app on your machine and a practical feel for how Copilot CLI can help you go from idea to working software faster.

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Boost Productivity with Copilot in Visual Studio

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Duration: 25:10
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Explore Visual Studio 2026 and the advanced enterprise features designed to help C# and C++ developers build, debug, and modernize applications with confidence. This session will dive into powerful profiling and diagnostics tools, enhanced debugging workflows, and practical ways to identify performance bottlenecks across complex codebases. We’ll also look at how Visual Studio supports app modernization efforts, from improving legacy applications to preparing projects for modern cloud-connected and AI-assisted development. Whether you’re maintaining mission-critical enterprise software or evolving existing apps for the future, you’ll see how Visual Studio 2026 helps teams ship better code faster.

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GitHub Copilot: https://gh.io/ghcopilot-features
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