Audio summary of Richard Seroter’s Daily Reading List #741, from March 13, 2026.

This edition covers fourteen links with a clear throughline: AI is reshaping how we build software, organize teams, and think about agent tooling.

Highlights:

• A2A Protocol v1.0 ships as a production-ready standard for agent-to-agent communication, with signed agent cards and multi-tenancy support
• BigQuery pipe syntax brings shell-script-style data flow to SQL queries
• Code reviews in the agentic era — Daniela Petruzalek argues code is disposable, system knowledge isn’t
• Right-sizing engineering teams — smaller, more senior teams outperform larger mixed ones when AI triples output
• Anthropic labor market research shows a huge gap between what AI could automate (94%) and what it actually is (33%), with early-career hiring showing the first signs of impact
• MCP vs CLI debate hits fever pitch — CircleCI says CLI for the inner loop, MCP for the outer loop; The New Stack makes the case for Markdown skills
• Amazon S3 turns 20 — from one petabyte across 15 racks to 500 trillion objects across 123 availability zones
• OpenClaw analysis from O’Reilly — none of the pieces were new, but timing made the combination feel different
• NanoClaw + Docker partnership tackles agent sandbox security with MicroVM isolation
• Google Cloud IAP on Cloud Run — one-click identity-aware proxy, no load balancers needed

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