Fantastic day at our Google Cloud Summit Nordics event in Stockholm. I got to host some customers during the keynote, deliver a breakout on AI-first product delivery, and then meet with a handful of customers at all different levels of AI adoption. Flying to Paris right now ahead of another event tomorrow.

[article] How do coding agents compare to copilots for developer productivity? (https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-145-how-do-coding-agents-compare) User effort was half with agents compared to copilots. Also less cognitive load, and less understanding of the code.

[paper] Twenty Years of Bigtable (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3788853.3803095). Many imitators, nothing quite like the original. This talks about the product journey and improvements made over time.

[blog] The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI (https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai). Nice report about how the shape of work changes, and the kind of the work we do.

[blog] Why Hardened Images are Suddenly Everywhere (https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/06/01/why-hardened-images-are-suddenly-everywhere/). Great post. A bit of history, and a focus on what developers really care about. It’s scary out there!

[blog] Design Patterns Are Dead. Long Live Design Patterns (https://medium.com/google-cloud/design-patterns-are-dead-long-live-design-patterns-b2c2602fbdc4). Which classic design patterns got eaten by the programming language, or matter less? Christina looks at this, and which ones survived.

[article] AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy (https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusiasts-are-in-a-race-against). What an essay from Charity. These groups are talking past each other and increasingly frustrated. Charity tries to bring it back together on shared goals.

[blog] Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/). Multimodal and laptop ready. Still Apache 2 licensed so party on. More here (https://developers.googleblog.com/bringing-gemma-4-12b-to-your-laptop-unlocking-local-agentic-workflows-with-google-ai-edge/).

[article] How GitHub plans to win developers back (https://thenewstack.io/github-wants-developers-back/). There’s still time. Lots to do. The usage-based billing probably won’t help (https://thenewstack.io/github-copilot-token-billing/), but those who grumble won’t find much relief elsewhere.

[article] AI’s brave new world of technical debt (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4178964/ais-brave-new-world-of-technical-debt.html). A good challenge of conventional wisdom here. The latest thing isn’t always the safest thing.

[article] OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work (https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/openai-launches-new-codex-tools-for-white-collar-work/). Not surprising to see them (and many platform companies) expanding reach to more types of users.

[blog] 6 Enterprise MCP Adoption Best Practices (https://nordicapis.com/6-enterprise-mcp-adoption-best-practices/). Basically, “operational maturity” is the story here.

[article] Can Chainguard Save Open-Source Software From Mythos? Can Anyone? (https://devops.com/can-chainguard-save-open-source-software-from-mythos-can-anyone/) How businesses consume open source is broken, says Dan in this article.

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