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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