Richard Seroter

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Chief Evangelist, Google Cloud; platform engineering, integration, app modernization

Composable AI Coding Stack Emerges over Single Tool
SocialApr 13, 2026

Composable AI Coding Stack Emerges over Single Tool

Is a new composable AI coding stack taking shape? @janakiramm thinks so. Instead of one tool to rule them all, a different stack is showing up dev environments. https://t.co/cXmrMLuPur https://t.co/2vSOzbBKbI

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Scion Runs Agents in Isolated Containers, Not Scripts
SocialApr 13, 2026

Scion Runs Agents in Isolated Containers, Not Scripts

"Most agent frameworks treat AI as a library or prompt-chaining script that runs directly in your environment. Scion takes a different approach — it treats agents as system processes, wrapping each one in a dedicated container and tmux session." https://t.co/Pjc4O6WUpi

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Model Armor Adds Gatekeeper for Secure AI Inference on GKE
SocialApr 13, 2026

Model Armor Adds Gatekeeper for Secure AI Inference on GKE

Guardrails at the gateway: Securing AI inference on GKE with Model Armor https://t.co/9JExlcrCJd < you're running an open model on Kubernetes, but want a gatekeeper to inspect traffic before and after the model gets called. This architecture shows how to...

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Write Lean, Flexible Agent Skills and Retire When Done
SocialApr 13, 2026

Write Lean, Flexible Agent Skills and Retire When Done

Really good. Write instructions, not essays. Keep it lean. Set the right level of freedom. Know when to retire a skill. @_philschmid delivers 8 excellent pieces of advice for those of us trying to get better at writing Agent Skills.

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LLMs Now Callable Directly From Pub/Sub Pipelines
SocialApr 13, 2026

LLMs Now Callable Directly From Pub/Sub Pipelines

At some point, it'll be possible to call an LLM from ANY piece of your architecture. Should you? We just added the ability to call LLMs (managed ones, or custom ones) from @googlecloud's messaging service Pub/Sub. I ask the question, and tried...

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Agent Gateways Soon Essential for Routing, Tracing, Limits
SocialApr 13, 2026

Agent Gateways Soon Essential for Routing, Tracing, Limits

Have you tried an agent gateway yet? You might end up with one sooner than you think. Rate limiting, tracing, model routing, policy management. All matter. From @ngrokHQ: https://t.co/2bf0jsPNuu https://t.co/mEGOf90QVt

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Use Gemini AI to Organize and Deep‑Learn for Finals
SocialApr 10, 2026

Use Gemini AI to Organize and Deep‑Learn for Finals

6 easy ways to study for finals with Gemini https://t.co/yDU69qEeRl < I gotta send this to my kid finishing up his freshman year. This isn't about "cheating" or skipping the work. It's using AI as a partner for organizing and...

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QueryData Converts Natural Language to SQL with Near‑Perfect Accuracy
SocialApr 10, 2026

QueryData Converts Natural Language to SQL with Near‑Perfect Accuracy

"[QueryData] is a tool for translating natural language into database queries with near-100% accuracy." https://t.co/HrIew33f4B < lots of great potential here

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Master When and How to Deploy Gemini Sub‑Agents
SocialApr 10, 2026

Master When and How to Deploy Gemini Sub‑Agents

Are we just assuming everyone knows why and when to fire up a set of agents to do work? Or how? There's still plenty to learn. @iRomin takes a good look at how to use sub-agents in the @geminicli. https://t.co/0BjKlGQBPc

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Embrace Discomfort to Build Resilience and Performance
SocialApr 10, 2026

Embrace Discomfort to Build Resilience and Performance

Are we drowning out important signals of discomfort that are supposed to help us develop resilience and better performance? If you want to grow, wrestle with discomfort. Stop avoiding it! Good post from @stevemagness ... https://t.co/pe7mzjSRBC

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Coding, Support, Search Dominate AI; Tech, Legal, Healthcare Lead Adoption
SocialApr 10, 2026

Coding, Support, Search Dominate AI; Tech, Legal, Healthcare Lead Adoption

"Coding, support, and search represent the lion’s share of use cases by far (with coding being an order-of-magnitude outlier even among this set), while the tech, legal, and healthcare sectors have been the industries most eager to adopt AI." https://t.co/qgQ6dqXnuv...

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New ADK Site Showcases Multi-Language Agent Development Benefits
SocialApr 9, 2026

New ADK Site Showcases Multi-Language Agent Development Benefits

New Agent Development Kit (ADK) homepage is 🔥. Looks good, and highlights some of the biggest benefits of using it to build agents in Python, TypeScript, Go, or Java. https://t.co/GqOLgjJXYf https://t.co/Udqzk2Eyvj

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Fine‑tune Gemma4 Model Using Serverless Google Cloud Run
SocialApr 9, 2026

Fine‑tune Gemma4 Model Using Serverless Google Cloud Run

Great example from Shir. Follow along to see how to fine-tune a #Gemma4 model directly on serverless @googlecloud Run jobs.

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Google Colab’s Learn Mode Eases Data‑science Notebook Learning
SocialApr 9, 2026

Google Colab’s Learn Mode Eases Data‑science Notebook Learning

Kinda intimidated by data science and following along in a notebook? Just me? I really like that @GoogleColab added a "Learn Mode" that explains things and guides us along the way. https://t.co/dDqAAOEWsU https://t.co/s4m1PC0c0T

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Juggling Five Problems Simultaneously Exposes Cognitive Limits
SocialApr 9, 2026

Juggling Five Problems Simultaneously Exposes Cognitive Limits

"We have almost nothing for what it feels like to hold five concurrent problem contexts in your head while making continuous judgment calls across all of them." https://t.co/VwHSu9vXPl < @addyosmani on the personal overhead of managing parallel agents, and finding...

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AI Agents Automate Figure Creation and Paper Review
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Agents Automate Figure Creation and Paper Review

"Introducing two AI agents to streamline academic research. These include: PaperVizAgent, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and ScholarPeer, a reviewer agent that automatically and rigorously evaluates academic papers" https://t.co/roqVnGZ0Tv < via @GoogleResearch https://t.co/9jCYIvmOtA

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AI Boosts Developer Productivity—Is a Speed Limit Near?
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Boosts Developer Productivity—Is a Speed Limit Near?

Wow, developers are getting significantly more productive, faster, in new jobs. Will we reach a plateau where there's nothing left to speed up with AI? https://t.co/lPQEw78kAF https://t.co/JgM0JBrsVZ

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Design Products for Agents First, Not as Afterthought
SocialApr 9, 2026

Design Products for Agents First, Not as Afterthought

Are you building your product expecting agents to be a primary consumer? Or an afterthought? Good @posthog piece on agent-first product engineering, including some super-solid tips on the right way to build agent skills. https://t.co/sjAGUMtJIq https://t.co/xoEyWtH2QF

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Five New Android XR Features Unveiled, Pretty Cool
SocialApr 9, 2026

Five New Android XR Features Unveiled, Pretty Cool

5 new features for Android XR https://t.co/KGVRpPmTZs < pretty darn cool stuff showing up here.

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RSS Cuts Through Bloated Web Page Clutter
SocialApr 9, 2026

RSS Cuts Through Bloated Web Page Clutter

Why does a typical web page download a Windows-95-worth of content just for you to read the 5kb worth of text you're after? We're ambushed everywhere with trackers, auto-play videos, and more. Thank goodness for RSS. Great post: https://t.co/pE4XrSSVjo

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Agentic Development, AI‑First Coding, and Sovereign Cloud Leaders
SocialApr 9, 2026

Agentic Development, AI‑First Coding, and Sovereign Cloud Leaders

Seroter Daily Reading List – April 8, 2026 (#759): Today’s links look at the 2nd phase of agentic development, how to use AI before writing the first line of code, and who’s crushing it at delivering sovereign clouds. https://t.co/fCSvVznmWV

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Detect Code Pain Points with Five Git Commands
SocialApr 8, 2026

Detect Code Pain Points with Five Git Commands

"Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns." https://t.co/szukDCA4TB < educational post. By running these commands, you can learn a lot about what...

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Guide to Prompting Google AI Lyria for Music
SocialApr 8, 2026

Guide to Prompting Google AI Lyria for Music

Need some templates for effective prompting of our @GoogleAI Lyria music models? I sure do. This is a great guide that shows you the best ways to get desired musical results, lyrics, and vocals. https://t.co/cfhZnZH4bz

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Coding Agents Enable Cheaper, Faster Software Hardening
SocialApr 8, 2026

Coding Agents Enable Cheaper, Faster Software Hardening

"I think we’re going to see a lot more reimaginings, where people attack old problems with modern tactics. Coding agents lower the costs of taking on stalwarts and raise our ability to rapidly harden our software." https://t.co/rDAftsXXKe < I like...

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AI Powers Virtual Teaching Assistant for Live Workshops
SocialApr 8, 2026

AI Powers Virtual Teaching Assistant for Live Workshops

Solving real problems with AI! @Christina_wm needed a virtual teaching assistant for her amazing and eccentric in-person AI training workshops. Here's the story of what she built ... https://t.co/DrQoThHbjL

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Decoding Harnesses, Burnout Patterns, and MCP Preference
SocialApr 8, 2026

Decoding Harnesses, Burnout Patterns, and MCP Preference

Seroter Daily Reading List – April 7, 2026 (#758): Today’s links look at the components of a coding harness, how burnout looks across the org chart, and why some prefer MCP over Skills. https://t.co/Nlcz2tBEeE

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27 Essential LLM Questions for Enterprise RFPs
SocialApr 7, 2026

27 Essential LLM Questions for Enterprise RFPs

I don't think I've personally seen an enterprise RFP with a full list of LLM-related questions. Here are 27 questions that you might be asking already before choosing an LLM ... https://t.co/tM4gEUVuyR https://t.co/O75Oq6lXKr

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TorchTPU Runs PyTorch Code with Zero Changes
SocialApr 7, 2026

TorchTPU Runs PyTorch Code with Zero Changes

"Our core principle for usability is simple: [TorchTPU] should feel like PyTorch. A dev should be able to take an existing PyTorch script, change their initialization to 'tpu', and run their training loop without modifying a single line of core...

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Google Releases Scion: Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed
SocialApr 7, 2026

Google Releases Scion: Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed

Google Open Sources Experimental Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion https://t.co/PlBR6IEpwn < I got this running on my machine over the weekend. It's harness agnostic (comes with Gemini CLI, Codex, Claude, OpenCode) and lets you orchestrate work.

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Harnesses: Software Scaffolds Managing Agent Context and Flow
SocialApr 7, 2026

Harnesses: Software Scaffolds Managing Agent Context and Flow

Is a harness an agent? How's that different from the LLM? I liked this post from @rasbt that explains each—"a harness is software scaffold around an agent that manages context, tool use, prompts, state and control flow"—and what's in a coding...

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GitHub's Dominance Faces Cracks and AI Disruption Risk
SocialApr 6, 2026

GitHub's Dominance Faces Cracks and AI Disruption Risk

GitHub is clearly super important developer infrastructure, and nothing replaces it anytime soon. But there are cracks. In uptime. In suitability for AI volume and use cases. And in company focus. There's disruption possibility. @GergelyOrosz explores: https://t.co/EjK7sA4FJ0

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Anthropic's System Prompt Unveiled: Lessons for Agent Design
SocialApr 6, 2026

Anthropic's System Prompt Unveiled: Lessons for Agent Design

That accidental leak of Claude Code's source code gave us a glimpse into how they assemble context. @dbreunig does a nice job explaining Anthropic's system prompt, and gives us something to think about for our own agent instructions. https://t.co/SksXWPEJSp

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AI Dev Tools Converge on Orchestration Across Environments
SocialApr 6, 2026

AI Dev Tools Converge on Orchestration Across Environments

All the AI dev tools vendor are betting on orchestration. Where does that surface live? The terminal, like Claude Code? Sandalone desktop app like Codex? As part of the IDE like Antigravity and Cursor? @janakiramm takes a good look worth checking...

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Experience Is a Skill, Not a Magical Gift
SocialApr 6, 2026

Experience Is a Skill, Not a Magical Gift

"But calling it 'taste' instead of 'experience' does something subtle and harmful: it makes a learnable skill sound like a gift." https://t.co/mceEZ2oMkr < great point. We don't need a magical sixth sense about our work; we need to put in...

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Security Tools Chase CVEs, Miss Planted Backdoors
SocialApr 6, 2026

Security Tools Chase CVEs, Miss Planted Backdoors

"Modern-day security tooling looks for the wrong things ... a deliberately planted backdoor doesn’t have a CVE." https://t.co/1wbJMiZMrj

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Platform Engineering Surpasses Backstage Architecture, Demands Rethink
SocialApr 3, 2026

Platform Engineering Surpasses Backstage Architecture, Demands Rethink

"The platform engineering market didn’t outgrow the idea of Backstage. It outgrew the architecture." https://t.co/A1tIlwohC6 < Backstage needs to reimagine itself to match what platform engineers need? That's the argument here from @ZoharEiny.

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Track AI/ML Experiments Efficiently with Vertex AI
SocialApr 3, 2026

Track AI/ML Experiments Efficiently with Vertex AI

Any chance you're losing your best AI/ML experiments in a sea of notebooks or manual spreadsheet trackers? Sounds like that's a real issue for many teams. This post looks at how to better track your model training experiments with @googlecloud Vertex...

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AI Writing Shortcuts Can Weaken Your Brain—Stay Active
SocialApr 3, 2026

AI Writing Shortcuts Can Weaken Your Brain—Stay Active

"When you ask ChatGPT to draft your email or memo, you are not just saving time. You are skipping a cognitive workout. And like any muscle left idle on the couch, the brain responds accordingly: it atrophies." https://t.co/5YPJqYodJn < keep...

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Veteran Tech Leaders Reveal Unexpected AI Development Strategies
SocialApr 3, 2026

Veteran Tech Leaders Reveal Unexpected AI Development Strategies

How do experienced tech people like @adrianco think about using AI to build software? The answer may (or may not) surprise you. I like this series of thoughts and advice ... https://t.co/xi0Xips0NO

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Gemma 4 Dominates Hacker News, Highlights Apache 2 License
SocialApr 3, 2026

Gemma 4 Dominates Hacker News, Highlights Apache 2 License

Sheesh, Gemma 4 stayed at the top of Hacker News for most of the day yesterday. A lot of the positive vibes were around the Apache 2 license. More on that, from @Sam_Witteveen: https://t.co/0GXUntxySL Also, @matthewmccull explains the Android angle: https://t.co/pG5RBKO3aP

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Hugging Face Sets Benchmark for Open Model Launch Blogs
SocialApr 3, 2026

Hugging Face Sets Benchmark for Open Model Launch Blogs

Our posts were great, but nobody seems to do an open model launch blog quite like @huggingface. This "Welcome to #Gemma4" post from @mervenoyann and crew is full of useful details ... https://t.co/o9KLByleGt

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AI-Generated Code Merges Plateau at ~30%, Growth Slower than Expected
SocialApr 2, 2026

AI-Generated Code Merges Plateau at ~30%, Growth Slower than Expected

AI-generated merged code holds steady at ~30% https://t.co/vvEzTtKd4c < self-reported today. Going up, but not at the expected rate.

By Richard Seroter
Indirect Prompt Injection Threats and Google’s Defense Strategies
SocialApr 2, 2026

Indirect Prompt Injection Threats and Google’s Defense Strategies

Indirect prompt injection "enables the attacker to influence the behavior of an LLM by injecting malicious instructions into the data or tools used by the LLM as it completes the user’s query." https://t.co/smO5fyBfLT < what @google Security does to...

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Don’t Trust Your Supply Chain Blindly—Follow Docker’s Guidance
SocialApr 2, 2026

Don’t Trust Your Supply Chain Blindly—Follow Docker’s Guidance

These recent software supply chain breaches are worrisome. How can we avoid assuming trust where we shouldn't? @Docker has a good post up with recommendations for engineering teams ... https://t.co/O5Mfag8N4y

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Leading AI Integration Across Go, Dart, Flutter, Genkit
SocialApr 2, 2026

Leading AI Integration Across Go, Dart, Flutter, Genkit

My remit changed and now I also lead our product and engineering for Go, Dart, Flutter, and Genkit. I like this post about principles our @dart_lang and @FlutterDev team are thinking about for thoughtfully bringing AI to the stack. https://t.co/7dhU7bw7Oj

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When Executive Presence Behaviors Undermine Leadership Effectiveness
SocialApr 2, 2026

When Executive Presence Behaviors Undermine Leadership Effectiveness

What exactly is "executive presence"? Maybe you know it when you see it. But can those behaviors you learned to lead and operate at the upper levels actually backfire? I found this @HarvardBiz article useful ... https://t.co/G1rGO62gR0 https://t.co/2jPN0IhIF7

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Fix Real-Time AI Voice Lag with Right APIs
SocialApr 2, 2026

Fix Real-Time AI Voice Lag with Right APIs

Got a hitch in your real-time AI voice app? That little lag throws off the experience. @anniewangtech figured out what was going on, and did a deep dive into the right APIs and patterns to apply. GREAT post. https://t.co/Xz0J6M0tcL https://t.co/Rmp0xlERUq

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Four Ways to Add Skills to Your ADK Agent
SocialApr 1, 2026

Four Ways to Add Skills to Your ADK Agent

These are four useful ways to bring skills into your ADK agent. Put the skill inline with the code, load it from a local file, import an external location, or create dynamic skills. Great post from @lavinigam and @Saboo_Shubham_ ... https://t.co/OZQXUdTMlT...

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KubeCon EU Highlights AI Surge, GitOps, Sovereignty
SocialApr 1, 2026

KubeCon EU Highlights AI Surge, GitOps, Sovereignty

I'm seeing some KubeCon EU recaps trickling out. This one from Intuit Engineering looks at the AI blitz, open source challenges, GitOps advances, sovereignty, and more. https://t.co/tTaMhZXIGx https://t.co/0rfCH0GJcS

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