Ali Afana

Honored to be featured 🙏 The sycophancy bug was one of the wildest I've found — an AI that lies to customers to avoid being rude. 9/10 wrong answers. Fixed it with 3 changes. Full breakdown: dev.to/alimafana/i-as… Building in public from Gaza — every bug is an article.

@ThePracticalDev Published my 6th article this month — about fixing 5 chained AI bugs where each fix revealed the next problem underneath. Also got featured in last week's Top 7 for the AI sycophancy piece 🏆 Building an AI sales platform from Gaza. Every bug becomes an article.

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@ThePracticalDev @thorwebdev @enderinco Honored to be featured 🙏 The sycophancy bug was one of the wildest I've found — an AI that lies to customers to avoid being rude. 9/10 wrong answers. Fixed it with 3 changes. Full breakdown: dev.to/alimafana/i-as… Building in public from Gaza — every bug is an article.

Congrats to our weekly Top 7 authors! 🎉 This week: 🔹@thorwebdev's tutorial for building a talking robot with Gemini Live + Reachy Mini 🔹The AI sycophancy bug uncovered by @AliMAfana 🔹@enderinco digs into AI's time complexity problems and more! dev.to/devteam/top-7-…

Followe my journey here :dev.to/alimafana , cant wait to see you all there , thanks for the 1500 followers on dev.to in just 5 days and 3 articles, I think the life not that short after all

@hackthebox_eu I want to get into it RN 🐉🐉

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I'm building an AI sales platform from Gaza. No VC. No co-founder. No startup ecosystem. Just a laptop, Claude, and a problem I couldn't stop thinking about. Here's what happened in 8 sessions of building: 🧵

I'm building an AI platform from Gaza. The AI recommended pajamas for date night Then it invented products that don't exist Then it forgot what customers asked 30 seconds ago. I fixed all of it. And I document everything. → dev.to/alimafana Follow for the real journey.

My AI sales chatbot kept recommending pajamas for "date night outfits." Why? "Cozy Night Loungewear Set" the word "night" is semantically close to "date night" in vector space. The fix: similarity threshold from 0.1 to 0.3. Sometimes the bug isn't in your code. It's in the math.

Crushed the day with deep SSRF work Solved multiple labs Completed @tryhackme Rooms Published writeups It’s not just about hacking. It’s about growth, strategy, and consistency.#Cybersecurity #SSRF #BugBounty

Just finished studying Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) ▪️ Understood the core concepts ▪️ Solved multiple labs (blacklist & whitelist based) ▪️ Wrote detailed technical writeups This was a huge step in my web security journey #BugBounty #SSRF #WebSecurity #CyberSecurity

After two years away from @tryhackme , I came back to find myself still ranked in the top 2% globally.Time to rise again — stronger, sharper, and more focused.Let's go. 💻📷#TryHackMe #BugBounty #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #RedTeam

Just earned the metasploitable badge on @tryhackme and its freaking awesome !

Just earned my web fundamentals certificate on @tryhackme! 🎉 Excited to enhance my knowledge in web security and gain practical skills. Thanks to @tryhackme for the incredible learning platform! #WebFundamentals #TryHackMe #CyberSecurity

🎉 Just earned the "Intro to Web Hacking" badge on @tryhackme! 🌐💻 Excited to dive into the fascinating world of web security and explore the vulnerabilities ,Thanks to the amazing resources provided by @tryhackme, I'm leveling up my cybersecurity skills! #TryHackMe

@tryhackme Awesome! This new room sounds like a valuable resource for understanding the policies and frameworks necessary for effective cybersecurity regulation within organizations. 🚀🔒

NEW ROOM: Gain a detailed understanding of policies and frameworks essential to effectively regulate cyber security in an organisation. 📑 Developing governance documents 🕵️‍♂️ Privacy and data protection 🔎 NIST special publications hubs.la/Q01Wc_mV0

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@KyserClark @tryhackme Great work 🔥🔥

I finished the SOC Level 1 Learning Path on #TryHackMe. I also got the #Phishing Badge from the last room in the path. Thanks for the new tools/skills @tryhackme! #LabEveryDay #InfoSec #Hacking #EthicalHacking #PenetrationTesting #Pentesting #Cybersecurity #THM

@hack0grammer @tryhackme Great work buddy, congratulations 💐💥

I just completed "Offensive Pentesting Learning Path" from @tryhackme. It was extremely fruitful journey, from learning basics of enumeration to privileges escalation on Linux and Windows OS. It gave a huge confidence boost. Next is "Jr Penetration tester" Path. #tryhackme

Just earned the OWASP Top 10 badge on @tryhackme! It feels great to have a deeper understanding of the most critical web application security risks. #websecurity #tryhackme #OWASPTop10