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The Mythical Agent-Month, Retirement Cartoons, and Coffee Brains - Related to your interests, Monday

Spotted in the Tenerife South Airport, February, 2026.

Related to your interests

  • The Mythical Agent-Month - “Put another way, agents are so good at attacking accidental complexity that they generate new accidental complexity that can get in the way of the essential structure that you are trying to build.” // There’s something in this: if you use your productivity gains to do more instead of going home early, you end up with the same amount of problems as always; there’s just more software.

  • Full-stack vibe coding made easy - Seroter shows off Google AI Studio.

  • Claude Code Channels Lets You Text Your AI Coder From Telegram and Discord - “The concrete version: you start Claude Code with a –channels flag. Behind the scenes, it spins up an MCP server that polls a messaging platform (Telegram or Discord at launch) for incoming messages. When something arrives, the message gets injected into the active session as a event. Claude processes it with full access to its toolkit: file reads, code edits, test execution, git operations. When it finishes, it pushes a reply back to the messaging platform using a dedicated reply tool.” // Adding this kind of thing to Cowork so the norms can do it - probably in Google Chat, Slack, and Teams will be the big ROI payoff.

  • Claude picks the first idea that works. Make it pick the best one.

  • You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists

  • Use Goose with Your AI Subscription

  • Trusted AI for Regulated Industries - “Infosys partnering with Anthropic to go after regulated AI in financial services, healthcare, and government. The thesis: enterprises in regulated industries won’t adopt AI from the usual suspects (OpenAI, Google) because they need audit trails, explainability, and compliance guarantees. Whether ‘trusted AI’ wins over raw speed is the bet. Anthropic’s positioning here is interesting - partnering through system integrators rather than going direct.”

  • What Is the PARK Stack? - PyTorch, AI models, Ray, Kubernetes. // As said, still needs data, agent orchestration, and agent memory management. Those are some, you know, pretty big gaps.

  • Studie: Mehrheit der DACH-Unternehmen hält Cloud-Abschaltung für realistisch - 83% of DACH companies** consider it realistic that a cloud provider could unilaterally restrict or shut off access to critical IT services - the “kill switch” scenario. But only 57% have an exit strategy**. Nearly half have no contingency plan at all. (Translated by Claude)

  • Australians urged to work from home, drive slower to offset oil crisis shock from Middle East conflict - “International Energy Agency recommends working from home, driving 10km/h slower, public transport to offset oil shock from Middle East conflict”

  • Your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor - “Before anyone starts mainlining espresso shots in the name of science, the apparent benefits weren’t tied to heroic levels of caffeine intake, just to steady, mid-range consumption - roughly two to three cups a day - suggesting that consistency matters more than turning yourself into a walking coffee bean.”

  • When Your Phone Makes Time Disappear - “Frequent phone use also changes how we experience boredom. When we are so used to the fast-paced digital environment, going screenless literally makes time feel slower. That’s why even twenty minutes of focused work feels so hard after Reading Week: your mind thinks it has been way longer. This perceived slowness is why we then reach for our phones, which feel far more interesting than our high-volume, low-reward textbooks.”

  • CARTOON REWIND - Classic Cartoons 24/7 - Retirement plans.

Graphics showing prompt engineering only rose from 22% in 2024 to 26% in 2025
You can never get enough “training” in the annual budget, and you never put enough in.

Wastebook

  • “Do work, go home.” Wait it out

  • Nancy Wheeler looks like female Rambo.

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