I write an internal Google newsletter every Friday and am always looking out for a theme emerging from the week’s reading list. I suspect that this week’s newsletter will be focused on how AI is impacting tech managers.

[blog] The Orchestration Tax is You (https://addyosmani.com/blog/orchestration-tax/). Great insights, as usual, from Addy. Some of this stems from the panel I hosted last week.

[article] Our Favorite Management Tips on Giving Feedback (https://hbr.org/2026/05/our-favorite-management-tips-on-giving-feedback). All useful. Still not my strongest skill.

[article] Trisha Gee: AI Won’t Fix Your Broken Pipeline – It Will Break It Faster (https://shiftmag.dev/trisha-gee-ai-wont-fix-your-broken-pipeline-it-will-break-it-faster-9785/). Now that we can generate code, are we focusing on the whole process? Requirements and prioritization? Build pipelines and production metrics?

[blog] Introducing Google AI Threat Defense to help you outpace the adversary (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-ai-threat-defense/). We’re assembling some of our security parts into a greater whole.

[article] What do software developers do now? (https://www.infoworld.com/article/4177296/what-do-software-developers-do-now.html) We’re in the in-between stages of job descriptions. You can’t wholly rewrite them yet, but the old way of working is clearly gone.

[article] Stop interviewing engineers like it’s 2022 (https://www.blog4ems.com/p/stop-interviewing-engineers-like-its-2022). I really liked the approach here. You should give interviewees AI tools since you’ll demand they use them at work. But your interview questions have to evolve.

[blog] A Guide to AI Cold Starts on Cloud Run (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/a-guide-to-ai-cold-starts-on-cloud-run/). The fact that you can do AI inference from a serverless compute stack is pretty amazing. Here’s how to squeeze out more performance.

[article] AI productivity debate (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/ai-productivity-debate). Good panel discussion here with pragmatic answers about mostly the human side of the AI transition.

[blog] AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/how-google-sre-is-using-agentic-ai-to-improve-operations/). You want expert Site Reliability Engineers, and giving them expert tools leads to better results. Here’s how we’re thoughtfully introducing AI.

[blog] Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue (https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/21/coding-agents-are-giving-everyone-decision-fatigue/). Instead of spending a lot of time building and writing, we’re spending more time deciding. That’s harder.

[blog] Announcing the newest cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East, North Africa & Turkey (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/meet-the-newest-cohort-of-our-mena-t-startup-accelerator/). The program delivers major impact to startups around the world.

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