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Agentic RAG: why vector search misses exact IDs

Vector search handles synonyms well and loses exact identifiers. Notes on pairing BM25 with vector retrieval, merging both with rank fusion, and letting the agent retry when the results come back empty.

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Development

The WordPress plugins team needs more reviewers

Plugin submissions climbed from 150 a week in 2024 to more than 500 in 2026, and the review queue is staffed by volunteers. What the job involves, and the 27 March 2026 application deadline.

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AI, Development

LLM hallucinations come from the architecture, not your data

Cleaning the dataset will not stop LLM hallucinations. Inside a transformer the right token is there in the early layers, and the model rotates away from it in the middle ones. What that means for monitoring an AI feature in production.

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Development

What the quantum software stack actually looks like today

A look at the quantum software stack as it stands: the three modalities you can program against, the layers from QASM up to Qiskit and Q#, and why the transpiler and the debugging story matter more than the hardware headlines.

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AI, AI in WordPress, Development

Building an AI application is mostly infrastructure work

Building an AI application is mostly plumbing: keys kept out of the repo, a plan for 429 responses, and a chunking engine for anything longer than the token limit. Notes on what keeps an AI feature running once it leaves your laptop.

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AI in WordPress, Development

Causal inference methods that beat your dashboard

A dashboard shows you what moved. These five methods tell you what caused it: doubly robust estimation, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, and CATE, with the Python I run on live WooCommerce data.

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Development, E-commerce Development

Why your A/B test winners are usually noise

Peeking at results, skipping the power calculation and tracking twenty metrics turn most A/B tests into noise. Here is the pre-test protocol I use on WordPress and WooCommerce sites, plus the short checklist I run before starting a test.

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Core Updates, Development

WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 and the new command palette shortcut

WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 adds a Command Palette shortcut to the admin bar and closes more than 101 bugs. What the shortcut does, how to register your own commands with the API, and why I update beta sites with WP-CLI.

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Development

Like-for-like reporting in Power BI with a bridge table

Most like-for-like reporting gets solved in DAX and then runs slowly. This is the model I build instead: a bridge table with a store-month key, the comparison logic in SQL and Power Query, and a sales measure that is nothing but SUM.

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Development, Front-end

Replacing Moment.js with the native JS Temporal API

Moment.js is in maintenance mode and still costs you bundle size. The JS Temporal API is native, immutable and Stage 4, so this walks through creating dates, arithmetic, Intl formatting and a time zone refactor in a WooCommerce extension.

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