#go

#go

In total I probably spent around 45 minutes actively with it. It worked for around 3 hours while I was watching, then another 7 hours alone. This post is a recollection of what happened and what I learned from it. All prompting was done by voice using pi, starting with Opus 4.5 and switching to GPT-5.2 Codex for the long tail of test fixing.

Google has added support for the Go language to its Agent Development Kit (ADK), enabling Go developers to build and manage agents in an idiomatic way that leverages the language's strong concurrency and typing features. The Go ADK is an open-source toolkit that enables developers to build modular multi-agent systems in which specialized agents are are organized hierarchically. It also provides support for debugging, versioning, and flexible deployment.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Go module that presents itself as a brute-force tool for SSH but actually contains functionality to discreetly exfiltrate credentials to its creator. "On the first successful login, the package sends the target IP address, username, and password to a hard-coded Telegram bot controlled by the threat actor," Socket researcher Kirill Boychenko said. The deceptive package, named "golang-random-ip-ssh-bruteforce," has been linked to a GitHub account called IllDieAnyway (G3TT), which is currently no longer accessible.

Goroutines are lightweight threads that can run concurrently, allowing for multiple tasks to be performed simultaneously without the overhead of traditional threads.

The v0.12 release of gopls features a core rewrite that allows it to scale to larger codebases, enhancing performance and reducing memory usage significantly.

A standardized CI/CD pipeline for microservices should address key challenges such as coordinating cross-service releases, managing backward compatibility, and preventing configuration duplication.

Dead code refers to functions in source code that can't be reached during execution, complicating maintenance. A new tool, 'deadcode,' helps identify such functions.

The dual components of Go interfaces affect equality checks, particularly with nil values, highlighting a subtlety in the language's handling of types and interfaces.