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Reading list (27th April to May 12th)

#agents #coding #tooling #ai

What I am currently reading ( 28th Apr 26 to May 12th )

These are the current online posts that I enjoyed reading and are worth sharing.

AI

  • Some interesting perspectives on the dependency that orgs might be falling into with the use of agentic ai coding assistants - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-11 21:07:31 )

  • Looks super interesting - this tool (open source) captures your agent AI session alongside your code commits. Works with multiple coding agents. - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-06 16:45:22 )

  • This video shares how Anthropic build Skills, so worth paying attention to - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-05-06 16:25:53 )

  • A must read post if you are looking to understand and write Skills files for AI Agents - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-06 14:07:52 )

  • Borrowing from concepts like memory paging that we used to use back in the 32bit CPU architecture era to access larger memory spaces by paging in/out memory, comes a new approach to memory management for your LLMs - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 11:16:55 )

  • An essential resource for anyone using Kiro IDE or CLI - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 10:59:03 )

  • Another read on the intersection of AI and legal constructs in tech - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 10:45:18 )

  • What alternatives to copyright can you use to protect the output of your agentic AI? This post looks at patents and trade secrets - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 09:00:09 )

  • Another post on copyright and IP controls in the agentic world - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 08:51:42 )

  • A post that explores how to build more robust AI systems by taking a look at how you can apply resilience engineering techniques and good practices - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-05-03 19:37:48 )

  • A great post on the increasingly important topic of token economics - dont skip this post. - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-05-03 19:35:58 )

  • A very nice workflow for using AI coding agents that provides a set of skills that helps walk you through from start to end. - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-05-03 19:31:36 )

  • Interesting reference implementation of an agentic low code tool built on AgentCore - link [code-repo] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 21:59:33 )

  • Google Cloud's Chief Evangelist Richard Seroter discusses developer loyalty, AI dev tools competition with AWS and Azure, and Google's platform strategy. - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 13:53:13 )

  • A post on the conundrum around copyright, intellectual property, and the output of agentic AI - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 13:49:58 )

  • From this post, an interesting data point (needs validation) "44 percent of Gen Z workers admitted to sabotaging their employers’ AI deployments as a form of rebellion" - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 13:25:04 )

  • A training course from Jetbrains on spec driven development - link [tutorial] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 13:24:18 )

  • Planning and implementation guidance from AWS, with a focus on best practices and tools, for architects, managers, technical leads, and executives - agentic AI has some good info and pattern decomposition - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 12:08:59 )

  • Thoughtworks unveils its agentic workflow - well worth checking out - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 09:54:23 )

CODING

  • Move over Localstack, there is a new kid on the block - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-11 21:06:47 )

  • A lightweight VM manager that allows you to mount local files/directories and then make them available to coding agents within a safe, sandboxed VM - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-06 16:03:12 )

  • Very cool resource for making sure your UML diagrams look fresh, AWS architecture icons - link [code-repo] - ( Added: 2026-05-05 15:08:39 )

  • A must read post that takes a more pragmatic look at the hype around spec driven development - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 14:27:31 )

  • Blog post and tool that looks at creating a simulation of code deployment and how you can use this to simulate and predict what stress points you might see as you increase velocity of changes made - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-05-04 09:42:50 )

  • A nice walkthrough of using gittrees with AI coding agents to do multiple parallel tasks on the same code base - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-05-03 19:35:03 )

  • Essential resource if you are using or wanting to learn about d3 - domain driven design - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 22:03:04 )

  • A very “hit” agent harness setup for AI coding that looks to make this more deterministic - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-04-29 07:24:16 )

TECH

  • An open source video tool that helps you create great videos for your demos or presentations - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-08 08:49:30 )

  • The RICE method to help you priortise feature releases - simple formula with consistent rubric - link [best-practice] - ( Added: 2026-04-30 21:26:03 )

AWS

  • The MIT alternative to Localstack - link [tool] - ( Added: 2026-05-01 21:18:40 )

OSS

  • This is an incredibly thoughtful, must-read piece from Gabriele on open source sustainability. - link [opinion] - ( Added: 2026-04-28 16:35:34 )

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