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Ali Afana

Building AI products from Gaza. Cybersec student turned AI builder. Creating Provia — an AI sales platform. I document every bug, fix, and lesson. The journey is the content. Follow along.

Education

Information Security / Cybersecurity

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Founder at Provia | Cybersecurity Student

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I Added Three Rules to Gemma 4. The MoE Searched. The Dense Model Refused.

Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission

I Added Three Rules to Gemma 4. The MoE Searched. The Dense Model Refused.

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I Was About to Rewrite My Chat Router. The Bug Was Two Lines in a Prompt.

Marketing copy mistaken for product catalogs

I Was About to Rewrite My Chat Router. The Bug Was Two Lines in a Prompt.

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OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

Identifies 100x cost gaps between features

OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

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I Fixed 5 Chained AI Bugs in My Sales Chatbot — Each Solution Revealed the Next Problem

The Two-Context Architecture design pattern

I Fixed 5 Chained AI Bugs in My Sales Chatbot — Each Solution Revealed the Next Problem

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How I Cut My AI Chatbot Costs by 55% With One Architecture Change

How I Cut My AI Chatbot Costs by 55% With One Architecture Change

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How to Find the Postgres Indexes Your Planner Never Picks (I Found 20 of 51)

78% index disk waste revealed by custom tools

How to Find the Postgres Indexes Your Planner Never Picks (I Found 20 of 51)

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A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.

A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.

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Every API Route in My App Was Wide Open — Here's What I Found When I Finally Checked

Every API Route in My App Was Wide Open — Here's What I Found When I Finally Checked

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I Asked My AI 'That's Sold Out, Right?' — It Had 5 in Stock and Still Said Yes

I Asked My AI 'That's Sold Out, Right?' — It Had 5 in Stock and Still Said Yes

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Why Your AI Is Lying to Your Customers ?(Prompt Engineering Won't Fix It)

Why Your AI Is Lying to Your Customers ?(Prompt Engineering Won't Fix It)

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My AI Kept Recommending Pajamas for Date Night — Here's Why

My AI Kept Recommending Pajamas for Date Night — Here's Why

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