The Plugins Team 2025 retrospective puts submissions at about 330 a week and reviews up 40.6%, with the same size team. Here is what the automated scans catch and how to run the Plugin Check plugin before the reviewers do.
WooCommerce 10.5 swaps full object serialization for stable signatures from a new CallbackUtil class, taking an 800-variation price lookup from about 500ms to 40ms. Dynamic pricing plugins now have to add their own factors to the cache hash.
Retrieval-augmented forecasting adds a search step to a time-series model, so it can pull similar windows out of history instead of leaning on frozen training weights. Covers embeddings, FAISS indexing and four ways to fuse retrieval with a forecaster.
Differential privacy noise hides the fairness gap when a bank only has a few thousand records. Across half a million records a federated model reached 96.94% accuracy with a 0.069% fairness gap, which is the case for joining a consortium.
High AUROC on MVTecAD does not mean a model survives a production line. Notes on input resolution, center cropping, background masking, and where early stopping usually goes wrong.
An LLM hands you one confident answer and hides the trade-offs. Probabilistic multi-variant reasoning asks it for several options plus the ways each one fails, and leaves the decision with you.
Small chunks lose context, medium chunks produce near identical similarity scores, large chunks are stable but noisy. How RAG chunk size affects retrieval, plus a PHP splitter that respects word boundaries.
A Blueprint turns a bare Playground instance into a real theme demo. Here is the WXR export, the GitHub media swap and the blueprint.json steps that get you there.
Part 2 of the vibe proving series: how an RL loop built around a hard proof checker teaches a model to follow logic rules, and where it still falls over on nested proofs.
Running NLP locally with Hugging Face Transformers instead of paying per API call: the pipeline API, zero-shot tagging, chunking text past a 512 token limit, and where to host the model.