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Logging in doesn't prove you're you — it proves you hold something
What an app actually checks when you log in, and the session it starts the moment you pass. Tap through a real login.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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Run the AI on your own machine, or pay per call? What actually changes
The same kind of model can run on a company's servers or on your own computer. What flips for privacy, cost, speed and model choice — and why your GPU's memory is the ceiling.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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When paying extra for a "thinking" model is worth it — and when it's a waste
Some models write out their working before they answer. What that actually buys you, what the thinking tokens cost, and the kinds of task where switching it on pays off.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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The moment your AI stops writing text and starts doing things
A model on its own can only talk. Tools let it act inside your app; agents let it choose their own next step — and that's where the power and the risk both come from.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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The AI told you to install a package that doesn't exist — that's a real attack
Code models sometimes invent library names, and attackers register those names to wait for you. The research behind it, and the one check that catches it. Try spotting the fake.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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Same prompt, different code every time? Here's the dial behind it
The model picks each next word from a shortlist, and "temperature" decides how adventurous that pick is. Turn the dial, watch the output shift — and see why newer models take the choice away.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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When the AI reads "it," how does it know what "it" means?
The idea behind every modern model, shown as a heatmap you can tap: how it decides which of your earlier words matter for the word it's writing next.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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Why the AI keeps forgetting what you told it — and how to stop it
The model has no memory of its own. Once a conversation outgrows its window, your earlier decisions quietly fall out. See what drops, what gets summarised, and the habit that keeps what matters in view.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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The AI's working memory has a hard edge, and you keep hitting it
Everything the model can see at once — your prompt, the chat so far, your files, its own reply — sits in one window with a fixed limit. Tap to watch it fill, and see why bigger isn't automatically better.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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Your AI bill is counted in tokens, not words — here's what one actually is
The model never sees words; it sees tokens, and they're what your context limit and your bill are measured in. Tap the meter to watch a sentence break apart into them.
Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min
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AI deleted my database. Can I get it back?
It happened to a Replit user in 2025 and to a Cursor user in 2026. What to check in the first ten minutes, why Lovable's and Replit's undo buttons don't bring data back by default, and the backup habit that does.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 6 min
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Supabase: the backend-in-a-box behind so many AI-built apps
A hosted database, login, an automatic API and file storage in one box. What's inside, what the free plan covers, and the one setting it asks you to get right.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min
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A query with no "only" returns everyone's data — here's how that happens
How your app asks a database for exactly the rows it wants, and what a missing filter exposes. Tap to run one and watch the WHERE clause work.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min
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The shape of your data: tables, rows, and the one column that links everything
How a database lays things out, why every column has a type, and the ID that decides whose orders are whose. Tap through a live table.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min
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Where your app actually keeps every sign-up, order and message
It isn't just a spreadsheet. What a database is, why it can find one row among millions, and where Supabase fits. Tap the table to see it work.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min
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The dining room and the kitchen: which half of your app anyone can read
Every part of your app sits on one side of a wall. The frontend runs on the user's device and is readable by anyone; the backend runs on your servers. The rule for what goes where. Tap to see the split.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min
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An API is a menu of requests a server agrees to accept — order off it
Why your app talks to other companies' servers (OpenAI, Stripe), what an API key really is, and why the kitchen has to check every order. Tap through the menu.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min
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Where your tap lands: the always-on computer that answers — and can see your secrets
A server receives requests and sends answers. What it can see that the browser can't, why your keys belong on it, and what "serverless" actually means. Tap to watch one respond.
Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 4 min