The Engineering Notebook — page 30 of 35

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.

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The Pixel Fold Leaks Are In, and Google Is Finally Getting Serious About Foldables

Google's next Pixel Fold isn't just a hardware refresh. It's a signal that the company building Android is ready to define what a foldable should actually be.

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GTCR Just Paid $1.3 Billion for the Company Behind Speedtest. It's Not About Speed Tests.

Private equity firm GTCR acquired Ookla and its portfolio from Ziff Davis for $1.3B. The real play isn't consumer speed tests — it's owning the world's most valuable network intelligence dataset.

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Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra Has a Screen Problem. Samsung's Response Is Making It Worse.

Early S24 Ultra adopters are reporting grainy 'mura' screen defects. Samsung's contradictory responses are turning a hardware issue into a full-blown trust crisis.

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Tesla Lost Its Top Powertrain Engineer. The Robotaxi Timeline Should Worry You.

Drew Baglino's exit after 18 years at Tesla isn't just a leadership shakeup. It exposes the gap between Elon Musk's robotaxi vision and the engineering reality required to deliver it.

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Passkeys Were Supposed to Kill the Password. Here's Why They're Stalling.

The technology behind passkeys is solid. The ecosystem around them is a mess. Here's what's actually going wrong with the passwordless future.

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Microsoft Says Xbox Exclusives Aren't Going Anywhere. The Math Says Otherwise.

Microsoft shipped four games to PS5 while insisting exclusives are staying. The contradictions in Xbox's strategy reveal a company arguing with itself about what it wants to be.

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Samsung's New AI Playbook: Can Alliances Finally Topple Apple's iPhone?

Samsung is betting that external AI partnerships can outpace Apple's walled garden approach. Here's why the alliance strategy is smarter than it looks.

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How I'd Build an AI Agent to Predict the T20 World Cup 2026

The 2026 T20 World Cup is coming to India and Sri Lanka. Here's how a software engineer would actually architect an AI prediction agent — and why it's harder than you think.

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10 AI Prompts That Create Cinematic Photos for International Women's Day 2026

Stop generating flat AI images. Here are 10 prompt formulas that produce cinematic, film-quality tributes for International Women's Day — using ChatGPT, Grok, Midjourney, or whatever tool you have.