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📝 Google Notebook LM

22 min read

Google Notebook LM Just Changed How I Do Research

I almost missed this one. And if I had, I'd still be doing research the painful way — juggling twelve tabs, copy-pasting quotes into a Googl...

#AI Productivity #AI Tools #Deep Dive

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 17, 2026

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Claude Playground Plugin: Why I Can't Go Back

📝 Claude plugins

18 min read

Claude Playground Plugin: Why I Can't Go Back

Three weeks ago, I was trapped in the most frustrating loop a developer can hit when working with AI. I needed a specific UI component — a c...

#Claude Code #AI Tools #developer productivity

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 17, 2026

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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Tested: Near-Opus at Half Price

📝 Claude Code

18 min read

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Tested: Near-Opus at Half Price

I almost didn't test Sonnet 4.6. Seriously. I was deep in an Opus 4.6 workflow — agents running, code shipping, the whole machine humming —...

#AI Development #Software Engineering #Claude Sonnet 4.6

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 17, 2026

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Stop Watching Tutorials — Learn Coding Faster

📝 Software Developer

21 min read

Stop Watching Tutorials — Learn Coding Faster

I wasted six months of my life watching tutorials. Not exaggerating. Six full months. I had a Udemy library that could rival a small univers...

#AI-Assisted Coding #Guide #Coding

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 16, 2026

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Stop Tutorial Hell: How I Actually Learn Coding Fast

📝 Developer Productivity

8 min read

Stop Tutorial Hell: How I Actually Learn Coding Fast

Tutorial hell is not a knowledge problem. It is a habit problem: you have trained your brain to require a guide before touching a keyboard,...

#developer productivity #Practical Guide #Learning to Code

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 16, 2026

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📝 Agent Skills

19 min read

Agent Skills Changed How I Build AI Workflows

I deleted forty-seven custom prompts last Tuesday. Not because they were bad — some of them took me hours to write, testing every edge case,...

#AI Development #Agent Skills #Claude Code

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 16, 2026

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I Tested Gemini 3 Deepthink — Google's Smartest AI Yet

📝 AI Tools

20 min read

I Tested Gemini 3 Deepthink — Google's Smartest AI Yet

I was halfway through building an autonomous agent pipeline in Claude Code when a notification pulled me out of flow state. Google had dropp...

#AI Models #Google AI #Hands-On Review

Engr Mejba Ahmed

Feb 16, 2026

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