2026-02 - W4
I Tried the World’s Simplest Productivity Trick (it worked)
Nice video I got by chance about how to stay focus by following a simple step: watching the wall for 20 minutes. I should also experiment it for a week.
Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison’s Weblog
Simon will write some guides / patterns about Agentic Engineering. He’s quite an influential figure in the AI, and all his articles/guides are must read.
Supercharging Claude Code with the Right (CLI) Tools
Interesting tip to make the agent better, by telling them they have access to particular tools, which are not available by default, like ast-grep and difftastic.
CLI to interact with Datadog
Datadog has created a CLI to interact with their system! This is way better than using MCP (as the latter is quite token hungry), and also, there was a disclaimer on their MCP usage:
The Datadog MCP Server is in Preview. There is no charge for using the Datadog MCP Server during the Preview, but pricing may change when the feature becomes generally available.
Cognitive debt
I’m starting to see more and more blog posts about cognitive debt, i.e. gap between output velocity and comprehension velocity:
This is completely true, and we might see the consequence in the next 1X months… If executives still focus on short-term benefit with delivery output (more code, more PR, more rollouts, more, more, moar) rather than long-term benefit…