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2026

How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era

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A practical guide to modern code reviews. Learn where to invest your time and effort to consistently write quality software in the agentic world.

Building Agent Skills with skill-creator

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Learn how to use Gemini CLI’s built-in skill-creator to automatically generate, refine, and structure your own custom Agent Skills using practical examples.

Bringing Old Photos to Life with Genkit and Gemini 3

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Learn how to build a high-fidelity photo restoration tool using Go, Genkit, and Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) native 4K capabilities.

Mastering Agent Skills in Gemini CLI

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Unlock on-demand expertise for your AI agent. Learn how to use Agent Skills in Gemini CLI to build modular, scalable, and autonomous workflows.

Improving Coding Agents with Help from Science

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Taming AI agents requires science, not just vibes. Discover how A/B testing and statistical rigor turn coding agents into a measurable engineering discipline.

My Year in Review: 2025

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Reflecting on a transformative 2025: from joining Google and mastering vibe coding to building my own AI tools and finding a new rhythm in life and engineering.

2025

Taming Vibe Coding: The Engineer's Guide

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Get the speed of AI without the mess. Apply engineering basics to keep your code structured, safe, and built to last.

How to Build an Offline Agent with ADK, Ollama and SQLite

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Learn how to make your AI agent completely offline. We walk through swapping the cloud model for a local Qwen 2.5 via Ollama, and building a local RAG knowledge base using SQLite and sqlite-rag to query Osquery schemas and packs.

Beyond the Dev-UI: How to Build an Interface for an ADK agent

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Elevate your Google ADK agent with a custom, retro-style interface. This step-by-step guide shows you how to replace the standard Dev-UI using FastAPI and vanilla JavaScript, adding personality with a real-time streaming, AI-generated avatar.

Celebrating Six Months at Google!

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Celebrating my first six months at Google! Reflecting on a whirlwind of 15 events across 5 countries, diving deep into the AI ecosystem, and achieving a major personal health milestone along the way.

How to Create a Diagnostic Agent With Agent Development Kit

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This article is a guide to creating a diagnostic agent with the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It covers the development process and explains how to use Vertex AI RAG to improve the agent’s response quality.

Hello, MCP World!

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Based on my keynote at Gophercon UK 2025, this article is an introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its core concepts, architecture, and the building blocks — Tools, Prompts, and Resources — used to create AI-enabled applications with Go.

A Model for Perceived Time

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An exploration into why time seems to speed up as we age, using a simple mathematical model to uncover a surprising truth about our perception of life.

Introducing Speedgrapher: An MCP Server for Vibe Writing

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The story of Speedgrapher, a custom MCP server for ‘vibe writing.’ It details the journey of turning a personal collection of prompts into a portable, AI-powered toolkit to automate and structure the creative process.

Building GoDoctor: An MCP Server with Gemini CLI and Go

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A step-by-step guide on how I built GoDoctor, an AI-powered Go development assistant, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Gemini CLI.

How I used Jules to add a featured post to this blog

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A detailed account of my iterative process working with Jules, an AI coding assistant, to implement a new featured post section on my blog’s homepage.

Digging deeper into the Vertex AI SDK for Python

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This article explores the communication model between the client code and the Gemini API using the Vertex AI SDK for Python

Can anyone vibe code?

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A reflection on the future of the software engineering career.

We need to talk about Jules!

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The new autonomous coding agent that every developer needs to know.