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Tag: Backend
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WordPress Studio Xdebug and the new debug log toggle
WordPress Studio added Xdebug support and a dedicated debug log toggle. Here is how I turn both on, the one-site-at-a-time catch, and the port your IDE has to listen on.