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Finally flying home after a terrific week in India. Today I had the chance to talk to startup founders and community leaders to share Google’s plans and hear what they’re thinking about.
[blog] 5 key takeaways from the 2026 State of Software Delivery. Creating more code, and shipping less often? A small number of people are getting AI-generated code to prod quickly, but most are struggling to ship at speed....

What a fun day talking to developers here in India. We had 1000+ doing hands-on workshops after a round of keynote talks. I might have learned as much as they did.
[blog] Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks. A major leap on reasoning for complex problems! Pretty excellent benchmarks here....

Today was a travel day as we bounced from Delhi to Bangalore. After a terrific customer visit, it’s nice to have a quiet evening before a 17 hour workday tomorrow.
[blog] New BigQuery global queries let you explore distributed data with a single SQL statement. The best managed services strip out complexity from your architecture. Here, we handle all the work of pulling distributed data together in one query....

Short list today, as I was mostly occupied at our developer event in Delhi, and had little time to read. Tomorrow, on to Bangalore and more fun discussions.
[blog] How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt. Do devs need to slow down to avoid crushing cognitive debt that prevents their best work and harms the systems in the long term?...