Kaslin Fields

GKE & OSS K8s Dev Advocate at Google, co-host of @KubernetesPod, CNCF Ambassador, tech comic creator. She/Her.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

This week, I was at AGNTCon. I may be biased but Agent Substrate is going to change this industry. We spent the last 8-9 months working on this and it’s incredible to see so many companies are aligning on it now.

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

How did we rethink Kubernetes for agentic workloads? The needs are different from traditional apps.

I'm in Sunnyvale at an agentic event where @rakyll and @thockin are giving an excellent overview of Agent Substrate and AX. Some big aspirations!

[Kyle Daigle @kdaigle]

We still want to find a way to bring the community together. If you planned to be in California for the Grace Hopper Celebration, I invite you to join us this year for GitHub Universe, Oct 28-29. 🌉

We've set aside 75 complimentary passes for folks with cancelled registrations. While this doesn't replace the conference and Universe has far fewer attendees than GHC, my hope is that it does give folks an opportunity to connect with each other. 📷 DM the GitHub team on LinkedIn or email me at [email protected] (first come first serve).

[Chris Aniszczyk @cra]

we will do the same for #kubecon #cloudnativecon NA next month https://t.co/ELkqBH0bB2

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

It's not your imagination. Some hyperscalers have slowed down updates to non-AI products.

I asked one of my agents this AM to investigate 2026 releases across Google, AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle, and compare to past years. The agent looked at thousands of releases!

On foundational products, Microsoft is down y/y (22%), but dedicated AI product updates increased 239%. Makes sense.

Oracle stayed flat on total release notes, but surged on Generative AI.

AWS didn't slow foundational product releases this year, but also grew AI releases by 113%.

And Google Cloud sgnificantly grew both foundational product updates AND its AI releases in 2026. Interestingly, we had 87 products with ≥ 10 updates, vs. 40 on AWS, 18 on Azure, and 11 on OCI.

We're all shipping a lot! Product focus is changing for all of us. It's pretty amazing that we can chew through this much data in minutes!

[Drew Bradstock @dbradstock]

It is great to see how far Google has come and how it truly is the new way to cloud. Check out the Forrester Wave for public cloud platforms to see how we've evolved across all workloads - but especially AI.

[jordi @jordienr]

My (long) take on lovables/replits.

I meet lovable+supabase customers almost weekly now. They contact me and I go get a coffee or do a call with them (many of them local) to ask how is it going. What they're building. Where the pain points are, etc.

Most of them have no technical background. I check their projects for vulnerabilities and so far they've all been safe. Lovable catches most issues early. I have talked to 10+ different customers in the past few months so my sample is not very big.

What's interesting: most of them have customers already. This is because instead of developer brain they come from sales/marketing/generalists and they built something where they had existing demand. Something that either complemented their existing business or they had an upper hand in gtm. They validate early and talk to customers a lot.

They don't care about token cost optimization. Getting most tokens out of $ spent. This is a developer brain thing. They only care about $ spent vs $ generated and getting stuff done.

This is a new type of customer that didn't exist 2 years ago. Seems like a big market, or at least we haven't seen the ceiling yet. Most of the narrative going on here is completely unaware of this customer and think that lovable are selling to regular devs. At least in my X bubble.

It seems to be all SMB. If you know anything about SMBs you know that what kills them is usually bad hiring or bad GTM. They don't get to raise millions to subsidize bad hiring or bad gtm. They find that with lovable they can finally fix that problem.

I own part of a small family catering business. I've built a ton of tools that help us save money and have more time to work on what's important. Not with lovable, but I can 100% understand other SMBs that find that they have access to the same solutions now.

Seems to me like it's incredibly early and there's a ton of opportunity to build for these customers. But they're not on X.

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

If you had a ticket to Grace Hopper and have not cancelled your plans to go to San Francisco, go to @github's LinkedIn right now if you'd like to attend GitHub Universe for free ❤️

[Sarah Chieng @MilksandMatcha]

I have a lot of thoughts on the whole “it’s impossible to find someone technical who’s also good at creating content, has taste, and deeply understands the ai ecosystem (twitter)”

In no particular order

1. I have seen many companies hire for this role too early. When I interviewed for this vague new media/ devrel/ DevX world before joining Cerebras, many very cool companies reached out but they had no clear product to market and no clear audience.

What ends up happening is that there is no clear need or scope and this person is dumped to do everything because they lowkey can do everything. (Be warned)

2. Many of the best folks at this role did not start as GTM folks. The most common profile are folks who are engineers first, generally have CS degrees (although many are now self taught) and naturally found themselves really excited to be educators as well. Key word = educators.

I had a CS degree from MIT, decided very early I did not want to be a software engineer because it was too monkey mill, and carved out a hybrid role for myself.

3. When thinking about who is exceptional at this role, it’s important to distinguish the person from the company. For example, if someone is at a top lab, how much of the viewership, followers, etc are from them or just natural company groupies. (This is not to say folks at oai, ant, etc are not extremely talented).

4. So! Now everyone thinks they can now be a creator because how good AI is. One of the main differentiators for engaging content is having a literal human face in your content versus obscene amounts of screen recordings and graphic animations. Thus everyone is trying to hire a face of a company and needs to hire faces of a company.

5. This is just a thought but there are very clearly AI companies built around their founder where the founder is the face and everyone at the company feels like it’s their job to just make the founder more famous. I will not name names. I appreciate smaller companies like @browserbase who seem to amplify the many voices in the company.

6. There are still a ridiculous amount of companies who do not realize the value of investing heavily in these types of folks. Perhaps they are scarred by the lack of impact of enterprise/ old school marketing. But these AI companies, when not doing well, react by firing and downsizing these technical GTM teams (wrong move buddy), you never hear about them again, and they spiral into oblivion. Don’t do this.

7. There are two types of companies who “get it”. The companies who just do, and the companies who have been burned by 5+ years of failing to get the company message out and are finally like oh shit. We need to hire these types of folks and do this type of thing.

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

The best time to install @antigravity was six months ago. Second best time is today.

The team shipped a lot of improvements lately, including the ability to construct custom UIs in chat, full-screen media viewer, zip import, and many great UI touches.
https://t.co/4eapGMdtOn

[Karl Weinmeister @kweinmeister]

Google's Gemini 4 Argon is now available for everyone.

To test its visual coding and spatial reasoning capabilities, @genevieve__h used the model in Antigravity to build "Desk Racer," a 3D browser game generated from photos of her desk.

Watch my time-trial run below. Here is how it was built: 🧵

[Emma Bostian @EmmaBostian]

Nobody wakes up thinking, “Today seems like a great day to be a terrible manager.”

And yet, even the best-intentioned managers get things wrong.

I wrote about why caring about your people isn’t enough and what we can do about it.

My first post for The Imperfect Manager 👇

https://t.co/fbOx6UklX4

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

Can confirm. We built Freeman & Forrest to offer this as a service, and the demand has been staggering (and not just from startups btw).

[Kaslin Fields @kaslinfields]

"...thinking fondly of the ones who were good enough at business to put more money in the pot for raises to be given out." People want to be on teams that are successful & valued. I want to drive ongoing investment in my team through excellence.

[Kaslin Fields @kaslinfields]

"growth is hard and part of your job is to challenge people. How they feel about this is under their control, not yours." - The people I manage deserve respect for their autonomy. I aim to enable my folks to be able to make their own choices, including about how to feel.

[Kaslin Fields @kaslinfields]

I love this @mipsytipsy post so much! It really reflects some of my core values as a manager. Especially:
1) Respecting people's autonomy
2) Leading toward excellence, not just good vibes (while hopefully related, the two goals are not the same) 🧵

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

"Making your team happy is not the job [of a manager]. Someone who can’t handle disappointing their direct reports or making them upset will never be an effective leader." https://t.co/TPJNto8awW < post full of truth bombs from @mipsytipsy. Business outcomes come first.

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

"Making your team happy is not the job [of a manager]. Someone who can’t handle disappointing their direct reports or making them upset will never be an effective leader." https://t.co/TPJNto8awW < post full of truth bombs from @mipsytipsy. Business outcomes come first.

[Kaslin Fields @kaslinfields]

I've been thinking about this a lot. I see a pull toward more customized & free-form learning paths. Engineers still value instruction and expert reviews are more valuable than ever, but they also want the freedom to connect what they're learning right to what they want to build.

[Natalie Davis @codeFreedomRitr]

Dilemma - ai moves too fast for my past preferred learning methods and it feels like ai is the best thing to help me go deeper, but I only “trust“ ai when I have at least a foundational understanding.

Any of y’all figured this out yet? Or do I just dive in and validate?

[Angie Jones @techgirl1908]

I'm hiring a Social Media Manager for the Agentic AI Foundation (@AgenticAIFdn).

We have a LOT of exciting stuff happening around the world and are looking for someone who can capture that motion socially. If you enjoy a fast paced environment where you can be fun and creative, I'd love to chat!

The role is fully remote with the opportunity for occasional travel.

Please share with the most creative social media strategists you know.

https://t.co/acQE2nR525

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

Today at Google Cloud’s Gemini at Work event, we announced Gemini, a new single universal agent for work that has all of your business context and can be used for everything from knowledge work to answering questions, and content creation to coding, all from a single prompt box.

It’s built around core architectural principles:
☑️ Unified Agent: Gemini can answer questions, do knowledge work and generate code from a single prompt box.
☑️Access: Gemini is web-based and can be accessed from any device and integrated into third-party applications. It can also operate without a dedicated user interface.
☑️Persistent Execution: It runs in the cloud, which means it maintains a single set of memories, context and one personalization graph no matter where you access it.
☑️Multi-Agent Orchestration: Gemini can create sub-agents to tackle multi-step tasks and can also act as a coworker agent with a defined role and its own dedicated identity
☑️Context: Gemini knows your tools, data, and work history and learns how you work the more you use it.
☑️Model Choice Flexibility: It orchestrates across multiple models to deliver optimal quality and lower your costs.