Emanuel Cifuentes

Check out my blog post: AI is everywhere, from social feeds to enterprise roadmaps, but that doesn’t mean every app needs it. This post breaks down when AI integrations truly add business value, when they don’t, and how to decide if your app is ready. emacodes.dev/2025/10/do-i-n…

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If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus

LLMs process text from left to right — each token can only look back at what came before it, never forward. This means that when you write a long prompt with context at the beginning and a question at the end, the model answers the question having "seen" the context, but the context tokens were generated without any awareness of what question was coming. This asymmetry is a basic structural property of how these models work. The paper asks what happens if you just send the prompt twice in a row, so that every part of the input gets a second pass where it can attend to every other part. The answer is that accuracy goes up across seven different benchmarks and seven different models (from the Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek series of LLMs), with no increase in the length of the model's output and no meaningful increase in response time — because processing the input is done in parallel by the hardware anyway. There are no new losses to compute, no finetuning, no clever prompt engineering beyond the repetition itself. The gap between this technique and doing nothing is sometimes small, sometimes large (one model went from 21% to 97% on a task involving finding a name in a list). If you are thinking about how to get better results from these models without paying for longer outputs or slower responses, that's a fairly concrete and low-effort finding. Read with AI tutor: chapterpal.com/s/1b15378b/pro… Get the PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.14982

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The reason we know Radiation causes bit-flips in DRAM is pretty hilarious. In the late 70s, Intel Ram was occasionally producing soft, uncorrectable errors. Turns out, the ceramic packaging on the chip itself had a little bit of Uranium. You know, as one does.

Fibonacci spaced indentation is underrated

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PARENTS: please check your kid's candy this halloween - i just found an 18-month enterprise salesforce contract with AI features and a $100k early breakup fee inside this snickers bar

JSON is token‑expensive for LLMs – just like @mattpocockuk frequently mentions. Meet TOON, the Token‑Oriented Object Notation. 💸 40–60% fewer tokens than JSON 📐 readable & tokenizer-aware Wrap your JSON with `encode` to save half the token cost: github.com/johannschoppli…

Me finally reading the api documentation after trying it for the last two hours based on vibes.

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HTTP is supposed to be stateless, but sometimes... it isn't! Some servers create invisible vulnerabilities by only validating the first request on each TCP/TLS connection. I've just published a Custom Action to help you detect & exploit this - here's a narrated demo:

Quick Linux tip: When you need to create several directories at once, you don’t have to do it one by one. The mkdir command supports brace expansion, letting you create multiple nested directories in a single go. $ mkdir -p ~/scripts/{site-01,site-02}/{backup,monitoring,network} This instantly creates folders for two sites, each with its own backup, monitoring, and network directories. A neat way to save time and keep your directory structure organized.

NGL, Adding gitignore under gitignore is the best experience ever