What Is Agent Drift in AI Coding
You asked an AI coding agent to add a user profile feature. It came back with clean code, passing tests, and a working UI. Everything looks great until you realize it created a brand new users table instead of using…
Vinish Kapoor
An Oracle ACE, author of four books on Oracle APEX, SQL and PL/SQL, and Oracle Forms, and a software developer building Oracle database applications since 2001.
The Complete Guide to APEXlang in Oracle APEX 26.1
For over two decades, an Oracle APEX application has lived inside the database as metadata you could only realistically touch through the App Builder. The export was a giant f100.sql file — fine for deployment, nearly useless for code review, diffing, or…
How ATS Works for Resumes: What Really Happens After You Apply
You polish your resume, click "Submit," and then… silence. No rejection, no interview, nothing. Before you blame your experience, understand the software sitting between you and the recruiter: the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). More than 97% of Fortune 500 companies and…
Resume vs CV: What's the Difference and Which One You Need
You're about to apply for a job, and the posting asks for a "CV" but everything you've ever written is a resume. Or you're applying abroad, and suddenly the rules feel different. The resume vs CV confusion trips up job seekers constantly,…
How to Write a Software Engineer Resume That Gets Interviews
You can be a brilliant engineer and still get rejected before a human ever reads your application. The reason is almost never your code — it's your resume. A great software engineer resume does one job: it convinces a recruiter and an…
Model Collapse: What Happens When AI Trains on AI-Generated Data
Imagine photocopying a photocopy. The first copy looks fine. The tenth is blurry. The hundredth is an unreadable smudge. Model collapse — sometimes called recursive contamination — is the AI equivalent of that decay. When models are trained on data produced by other models,…
Context Decay: Why LLMs Forget Your Instructions in Long Conversations
You give a large language model a clear instruction at the start of a long document — "Respond only in JSON" or "Never reveal the customer's account number" — and 20,000 tokens later, it quietly ignores you. The rules you…
Prompt Injection Chain: How One Attack Cascades Through AI
A single prompt injection is dangerous. A prompt injection chain is worse — it's what happens when one malicious instruction doesn't just hijack a single AI response, but cascades from one component to the next, compromising an entire pipeline of agents, tools,…
What Is Vector Poisoning? The AI Attack Explained
Modern AI assistants feel trustworthy because they cite "their knowledge base." But what if an attacker could secretly slip false information into that knowledge base — so the AI confidently serves up lies, leaks data, or pushes malicious instructions to every user…
Prompt Rot: Why Your AI Prompts Stop Working (and How to Fix It)
You wrote the perfect prompt months ago. It produced clean, reliable output every time — so you saved it, wired it into your app, and moved on. Then one day the results start drifting: formatting breaks, the tone shifts, instructions…
What is Data Bleed? Meaning, Examples, and How to Stop It
Have you ever checked your phone bill and wondered where all your data went? You barely streamed anything, yet your plan is nearly maxed out. There is a good chance you are dealing with data bleed. Data bleed is one…
How to Check If Your Phone Has a Hidden Spy App (Stalkerware) — Step by Step
Spy apps are designed to be invisible. They hide their icons, disguise themselves as "System Update" or "Device Health," and quietly copy your messages, location, photos, and calls to someone else — often a person you know. This kind of…
Codes to Dial to See If Your Phone Is Hacked
Type a short code into your dialer, press call, and instantly find out if someone is spying on your phone — that's the promise behind codes like *#21# and *#62# that circulate endlessly on social media. The truth is more nuanced. These dialer codes…
10 Signs Your Phone or Computer Has Been Hacked (and What to Do)
Your phone suddenly feels sluggish. Your battery drains by lunchtime. A friend asks why you sent them a strange link at 3 a.m. — except you didn't. These moments make everyone ask the same question: Has my device been hacked? The…
Understanding a Ghost Thread in Coding
You might have heard developers whisper about a mysterious issue in their applications. They are usually talking about a ghost thread in coding. This hidden problem can silently ruin your application performance and frustrate your users. When you build software,…
What is Phantom Loop in Coding?
You have probably come across the term Phantom Loop while searching for help with a stubborn programming bug. It sounds like a legitimate computer science concept, something you might study in a college course or find referenced in official documentation.…
Domain-Driven Design: Building Software That Matches Your Business
If your codebase feels like it was written by engineers who never talked to the business team, you already know the problem domain-driven design (DDD) was built to solve. The gap between what the software does and what the business…
How to Show AI Assistant in Oracle APEX Application
Adding artificial intelligence to your software can drastically improve user experience and automate common tasks. You can quickly learn how to show an AI assistant in an Oracle APEX application. The platform provides built-in tools to integrate generative AI services…