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Galian

Founder of Cursuri-AI.ro and Co-Founder of ProtectAds.com. Passionate about scal...
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galian in Articles 12 min read
The support ticket says "the assistant took forever and then gave up." You open your logs. There's a line that says calling model..., a line eleven seconds later that says done, and somewhere in between, three tool calls that logged nothing because t...
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galian in Articles 6 min read
Claude Opus 5 Quietly Changed Your LLM Cost Math — a Production Tuning Guide When Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 in late July 2026, the pricing line looked like a non-event: $5 per million input tokens, $25 per million output tokens — exactly wha...
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galian in Articles 9 min read
Your LLM App Works Until It Doesn't — Handling Rate Limits, Timeouts, and Overloaded APIs in Production Your LLM feature worked flawlessly for weeks. Then you got your first traffic spike — a newsletter mention, a busy Monday — and the logs filled ...
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galian in Articles 4 min read
"AI engineer" went from a niche title to one of the most demanded roles in software in about three years — and the job description is still a moving target. One posting means "fine-tunes models," another means "wires LLM APIs into a CRM," a third mea...
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galian in Articles 1 min read
Every "build an AI agent" tutorial shows you the same twelve lines: a while loop, a call to the model, a check for tool calls, execute them, feed the results back, repeat. It runs, the agent uses a tool, you feel like a wizard. Then you put it in fro...
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galian in Articles 9 min read
You asked the model for JSON. You even wrote "respond ONLY with valid JSON, no other text" in capital letters. And it mostly works — until the one call in fifty where the model wraps the object in json fences, prepends "Sure! Here's the data you requ...
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galian in Articles 9 min read
You've spent your career learning to distrust input. You parameterize SQL queries so a user's name can't become a DROP TABLE. You escape HTML so a comment can't become a . In every one of those cases there's a clean fix, because there's a clean bound...
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galian in Articles 7 min read
Anthropic's most powerful model ships in two versions, and you can almost certainly use only one of them. Claude Fable 5 is the generally available flagship — the first model of the Claude 5 family, a tier above the entire Opus line. Claude Mythos 5 ...
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galian in Articles 8 min read
If you're shopping for an AI coding environment in 2026, two names keep surfacing in very different conversations. Cursor shows up when developers talk about raw speed and staying in the flow. Kiro, AWS's agentic IDE, shows up when teams talk about s...
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galian in Articles 6 min read
If you've ever built or maintained anything that spends money on paid search, here's an uncomfortable number to sit with: independent studies and industry data put invalid traffic at roughly 15–30% of ad spend. That's not a rounding error. On a modes...
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galian in Articles 8 min read
You built a RAG system. You embedded your docs, wired up a vector store, stuffed the top chunks into the prompt, and shipped. Then the questions came back wrong — confidently, fluently wrong — and your first instinct was to blame the model or reach f...
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galian in Articles 8 min read
Anthropic now ships two models that both feel like "the best one": Claude Opus 4.8, the top of the long-running Opus family, and Claude Fable 5, a brand-new tier that sits above Opus entirely. If you build with these models, the practical question is...
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galian in Articles 11 min read
Most RAG tutorials quietly ship your documents to someone else's cloud. You paste a contract, a customer list, or an internal wiki into an embedding API, and that data now lives on a server you don't control, in a jurisdiction you didn't choose. For ...
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galian in Articles 11 min read
> TL;DR — Model Context Protocol MCP is Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools, data sources, and services. It's powerful, but it's also overhyped. This guide covers what MCP actually is under the hood, when it's the right ar...
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galian in Articles 10 min read
A year ago, "AI agent" meant a clever prompt loop with a few function calls. Today, AI agents run customer support, write production code, manage infrastructure, execute trades, and operate entire business processes — autonomously. The gap between a...
galian in Articles 7 min read
Every CRM vendor on the planet has rebranded itself as "AI-first." HubSpot has Breeze AIhttps://www.hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence, Salesforce has Einsteinhttps://www.salesforce.com/artificial-intelligence/, Zoho has Ziahttps://www.zoho...
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galian in Articles 8 min read
> TL;DR — GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's current flagship in 2026, and the engineering challenge is no longer "can it answer my prompt?" — it's "can I integrate it reliably into a production system that respects budgets, SLOs, and compliance?" This article is a...
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galian in Articles 10 min read
> Opus 4.7 isn't just "a better Claude". It's a million-token context, a tool-use model that finally holds its plan, and a reason to rethink how you architect LLM systems. Here's what changed — and how to actually get good at using it. Quick reca...
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galian in Articles 3 min read
The global AI race is accelerating — and countries that fail to upskill their workforce risk falling behind permanently. While Western Europe and the US dominate AI adoption, Romania is writing its own chapter in the story, thanks to a bold EdTech in...
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galian in Articles 6 min read
AI Is Coming for HR — Here's How to Stay Ahead 87% of Companies Already Use AI in Recruitment. Do You? If you work in Human Resources, here's the reality of 2026: 87% of companies now use AI in their recruitment process, including 99% of Fortune...
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