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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.

Location Gaza Joined Joined on  Email address ali.afanatv@gmail.com Personal website https://provia-saas.vercel.app/about github website twitter website

Education

Information Security / Cybersecurity

Work

Founder at Provia | Cybersecurity Student

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I Raised Gemma 4's Token Cap. The Dense Model Stopped Refusing.

Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission
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I Raised Gemma 4's Token Cap. The Dense Model Stopped Refusing.

#ai #llm #opensource #gemmachallenge
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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
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I Added Three Rules to Gemma 4. The MoE Searched. The Dense Model Refused.

#ai #llm #opensource #gemmachallenge
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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
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I Was About to Rewrite My Chat Router. The Bug Was Two Lines in a Prompt.

#ai #llm #debugging #webdev
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OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

Identifies 100x cost gaps between features
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OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

#ai #webdev #openai #monitoring
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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
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I Fixed 5 Chained AI Bugs in My Sales Chatbot — Each Solution Revealed the Next Problem

#ai #webdev #javascript #architecture
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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
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How to Find the Postgres Indexes Your Planner Never Picks (I Found 20 of 51)

#postgres #database #performance #sql
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A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.
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A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.

#a11y #webdev #ai #buildinpublic
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How I Cut My AI Chatbot Costs by 55% With One Architecture Change
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How I Cut My AI Chatbot Costs by 55% With One Architecture Change

#ai #webdev #saas #architecture
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Every API Route in My App Was Wide Open — Here's What I Found When I Finally Checked
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Every API Route in My App Was Wide Open — Here's What I Found When I Finally Checked

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

#ai #webdev #javascript #programming
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Why Your AI Is Lying to Your Customers ?(Prompt Engineering Won't Fix It)
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Why Your AI Is Lying to Your Customers ?(Prompt Engineering Won't Fix It)

#ai #webdev #javascript #beginners
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My AI Kept Recommending Pajamas for Date Night — Here's Why
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My AI Kept Recommending Pajamas for Date Night — Here's Why

#ai #webdev #javascript #beginners
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