The Engineering Notebook — page 13 of 32
Notes on building with AI, agents & the modern stack.
Deep dives on AI/ML, RAG systems, agent engineering, and senior-engineer architecture decisions — a new post every week.
AI and Machine Learning GLM-5.2 vs Claude Fable 5: Open-Source AI Challenges the Throne [2026]
Zhipu AI's 753B open-weight GLM-5.2 is the highest-ranking open-source model on lmarena.ai, challenging Claude Fable 5 across WebDev and Agent benchmarks — and it's already runnable locally via Ollama.
Developer Tools Vibe Coding Best Practices in 2026: 7 Techniques That Work (and 3 That Create Tech Debt)
Vibe coding's creator says it's already passé. Here are the techniques that actually survive the shift to agentic engineering — and the ones silently destroying your codebase.
AI and Machine Learning Context Engineering for AI Agents: 4 Pillars That Replace Prompt Engineering [2026]
Context engineering — the systematic management of what an AI agent knows, remembers, and can access at each step — is the discipline replacing ad-hoc prompt engineering in 2026. Here are the four pillars that make or break production agents.
AI and Machine Learning NotebookLM Agentic AI Upgrade: What It Does [2026]
Google's NotebookLM evolved from a document Q&A tool into a multi-modal agentic platform — here's what the coding agent actually does and whether it can replace dedicated tools like Claude Code.
Developer Tools 7 Open-Source AI Projects Developers Need [June 2026]
The 7 open-source AI projects accumulating GitHub stars faster than anything in history — with honest developer verdicts no YouTube video has time for.
AI and Machine Learning Generative AI vs Agentic AI vs AI Agents [2026 Compared]
Everyone's told to 'go agentic' in 2026, but nobody agrees on what that means. Here's the concrete architectural breakdown — with a production decision framework.
AI and Machine Learning Google Antigravity 2.0: Agent-First Platform [2026 Guide]
Google Antigravity is the new orchestration layer for multi-agent workflows on Google Cloud. Here's what it actually does, how it differs from ADK, and where developers should start.
AI and Machine Learning Google ADK Tutorial: Build Your First AI Agent [2026]
Google's ADK Python 2.0 is GA with 20K+ GitHub stars — here's how to build, harden, and deploy your first AI agent beyond the happy path.
Developer Tools Homelab AI Coding Server: Run OpenCode Across All Devices [2026]
How to set up OpenCode as a persistent, PR-gated AI coding server on your homelab — accessible from every device, isolated from production, and free from vendor lock-in.
AI and Machine Learning Kimi K2.7 Code: Free Claude Code Alternative [2026 Tested]
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code drops into Claude Code with three environment variables. I tested it on real coding benchmarks — here's how it stacks up against Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.
AI and Machine Learning GLM 5.2: China's Open Frontier Model Dropped the Day Anthropic Got Banned [2026]
On June 13, 2026, the US government cracked down on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. Hours later, China's ZhipuAI open-sourced GLM 5.2 under MIT license — with a 1M context window and frontier-grade coding scores. This is what happened, why it matters, and how to use it today.
AI and Machine Learning Netflix Headroom: How to Cut AI Agent Costs 10x in Production [2026]
Netflix open-sourced Headroom — a context optimization layer that slashes LLM inference costs by up to 10x. Here's how the architecture works and how any team can apply the same patterns.