You're Ahead of 90% of People If You Know These 5 AI Terms
The post breaks down five core AI concepts—tokens, context windows, temperature, hallucination, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)—that most users overlook. Tokens are the smallest text units and drive pricing, limits, and model performance. Context windows define how much information a model can retain at once, influencing long‑form interactions. Temperature controls the trade‑off between creativity and predictability, while hallucination warns that models can fabricate confident but false answers. RAG merges document retrieval with generation, powering modern enterprise AI tools.
System Design Deep Dives: Part - 1
The post explains how scalability and availability shape modern system design. It contrasts vertical scaling—quick but limited—with horizontal scaling that requires stateless services, load balancers, and distributed data stores, citing Twitter’s evolution from a monolith to a sharded architecture. It...
Your Token Was Stolen. Now What?
The article warns that stolen JWTs let attackers impersonate users until the token expires, exposing a critical weakness in many API authentication flows. It outlines the typical login sequence, then highlights how tokens stored in insecure locations or with long...