Seroter Daily #873: The Internet Isn't Ready for the Agentic Wave, MCP Apps, GKE Scale-to-Zero
rseroter · x · 2026-09-24
Richard Seroter's daily reading list #873 highlights several notable pieces:
- MCP Apps: returning interactive UI components alongside data via Toolbox; useful if your client can render a web view.
- Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech: creates new voices from scratch, replicates existing ones, and directs performances — called "wild models".
- The Internet Is Not Ready for the Agentic Wave: the web assumes human users — page layouts, CAPTCHAs, and crafted CTAs don't matter to agents.
- GKE native scale-to-zero: no longer requiring the optional KEDA extension to shrink workloads to zero and save costs.
- Gemini billing tip: keep post-paid billing by using Vertex instead of AI Studio Prepay, so your app doesn't die when credits run out.
- Also: Netflix on better Java modularity, advice for building generative media agents (model/harness/tools), and a "death of apps" essay the author fully endorses.
More from coding & agent
- Ex-Meta Ads builder launches agent that runs entire ad campaigns from one prompt, 24/7 with no human input — EXM7777 · 2026-09-24
- That Opus 5.5 Demoscene Demo Used Under 3% of a Weekly Usage Quota — gandamu_ml · 2026-09-24
- Christoph Nakazawa: Frameworks Still Matter in the AI Era Because Attention Is Finite — cnakazawa · 2026-09-24
- Bespoke Labs Launches AutoResearchExam: Benchmarking 24-Hour Auto-Research Agents — AlexGDimakis · 2026-09-24
- Claude Opus 5.5 One-Shots a 1990s-Style Demoscene Demo in C/C++ and OpenGL — gandamu_ml · 2026-09-24
- Claude Models, Textures and Rigs a Blender Character in Pure Code, Packaged as a Game Dev Skill — majidmanzarpour · 2026-09-24