Before AI hit, the tech industry was focused on supply chain security. Now I'm hearing folks questioning the value of human review of AI generated code. I know it's a pendulum but I'm getting dizzy 😵‍💫

I wrote up my thoughts on a new pattern of AI Agent use i'm calling the "Chief of Staff" -- (www.marcdougherty.com/2026/ai-agen... ). In short, I talk to one agent, the chief of staff, who knows my preferences. They are responsible for interfacing with other agents to achieve my goals.

I've been thinking about the way we're "packaging" AI agent capabilities recently. We've seen MCP, CLIs, and Skills but they all require a lot of deep integration and/or configuration with one's own agent. What if "agent" is the right size package?

I came across this article recently titled "Just F$@(* Use Go" (blainsmith.com/articles/jus... ). The tone is a little aggro, but the author has some pretty good points 😄 - be boring, not clever. - concurrency doesnt have to be hard. - simple dependency management and deployment.

How do you let AI agents edit your Google Sheets or Analytics without exposing raw credentials? 🤖🔑 In my latest post, I share how I built Google OAuth into my personal MCP server to act as a trust boundary, protecting keys while enabling agent tools. www.marcdougherty.com/2026/mcp-ser...

All the talks from Google I/O have been published on Youtube, including "What's New in Go" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ln... ) There isnt a full playlist yet, but all videos are here: www.youtube.com/@googlecloud... There's Cloud Next content mixed in there, too, in case you missed it!

"Boring is good. Boring is stable. Boring means being able to focus on your work, not on what’s different about Go." (go.dev/blog/compat) IMO, this sentiment needs to be **louder** (see also boringtechnology.club ). Boring tech stays in the background, so you can work without reinventing wheels.

Go has a reputation for being great for API backends and CLI tools, but it gets used in many other ways. What's your most unusual/fringe use of Go? Some of my favorites are a company that uses Go to control satellites, and the Ebitengine game engine, which can build games for the Nintendo Switch!

The results of the 2025 Go Developer survey have been published at go.dev/blog/survey2... I am curious about the concentration of Go users in the Tech and Finance industries. I'd love to learn more about Go devs in other industries.

Tired of updating Go dependencies, only to find that there's been an API change and now you need to find out which dependency is the problem? That's why I built github.com/muncus/go-de... - it uses Go's `apidiff` library to help you sort the "easy" dependency updates from the ones with API changes.

Are you tired of copying AGENTS.md files all over the place? Do you lose track of edits? (I do!) I built a tiny Go MCP server that embeds a directory full of prompts, so getting the latest version is just a `go install` away! I wrote about my approach here: www.marcdougherty.com/2026/managin...

I enjoyed "Why I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer" (lalitm.com/software-eng...) - it really resonates with my time as an SRE, focused on product and infrastructure reliability.

Go dependency updates can be a hassle when the packages make API changes. I built a little prototype that uses `apidiff` to warn me about API changes in dependency updates, and wrote more about it here: www.marcdougherty.com/2025/go-depe... #golang

Happy birthday to Go! The Go programming language turns 16 today 🎂 Jet brains recently shared some of their analysis of the Go ecosystem: blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/11/1... #golang

Gophers! It looks like Google's ADK is now available for Go! google.golang.org/adk I haven't taken it for a spin yet, but I'm curious to see how it compares to other frameworks like Genkit, Langchain, etc. Do you. have a favorite AI framework?

This blog post about Go's experimental GreenTea Garbage Collector (go.dev/blog/greente...) has great illustrations of how "traditional" mark-and-sweep GC works, as well as how GreenTea is different. Love the transparency, and the data on CPU improvements!

Jetbrains Developer report is out for 2025 (devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com/tools-and-tr... ) - and there's some surprising Go results in there! - most desired language, with 11% - used by 20% of the developer ecosystem! - #4 overall by JetBrains' overall "promise index" and #2 for highest paid (!?)

I balk at the phrase "10x", but I like this collection of Go patterns: blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/10/1... I don't *completely* agree with #5 (wrap errors) - there's sometimes a good case for making errors opaque by not wrapping. Agree that looking at strings is definitely *not the way*. 🫠

Updates are as easy as `go get [email protected]` ✨

was just reminded of how much I love the debugging manifesto poster that Inner Loop Press designed for Wizard Zines, you can get it for $20 US + shipping here: store.wizardzines.com/products/pos... I'm SO delighted with how it turned out (also for more of Inner Loop's work: www.innerloop.press)

Check out the Google I/O talk "What's new in Go" at io.google/2025/explore... @cameronb.bsky.social and I cover a brief history of Go, and many of the new features and capabilities @golang.org has released in the last year.

This year's #GoogleIO is extra exciting, not least because Go team members @cameronb.bsky.social and @muncus.bsky.social will be presenting Go's first ever product keynote, "What's New in Go"! Tune in on Thursday, May 22 at 9am PT 👉 io.google/2025/explore...