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I described 1,245 tables with an LLM and retrieval got worse

The cataloguing step is supposed to be the easy win. You have a schema whose ecm_template_link and v_pmpm, your users ask questions I did that to a real 1,245-object schema. Recall went down. Not by a little. The table literally called contacts sat at rank 3 for the This post is what was actually happening, why the obvious fix doesn't work, Every description you generate is written in the same vocabulary as every BM25 scores a term by inverse document frequency: idf(t) = log(1 + (N - n_t + 0.5)

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Every text-to-SQL benchmark score you've seen was measured without access control

Spider, BIRD, LiveSQLBench. If you have evaluated a text-to-SQL system in the None of them ask who is asking. Every score you have seen was produced by a system with unrestricted read Benchmarking Text-to-SQL under Role-Based Access Control, by Yang Fei, The scale of the augmentation: 53 databases, 399 tables, 3,353 columns 21,502 role-annotated query instances policies at column-operation granularity — not "can this role read this table" but "can this role SELECT this column" roles synthesised

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Milestone Reached: YINI Syntax Highlighting Is Now on the VS Code Marketplace

Milestone Reached: YINI Syntax Highlighting Is Now on the VS Code Marketplace A small but important YINI milestone has been reached: the official YINI Syntax Highlighting extension for Visual Studio Code has reached version 1.0.0 and is now available on the Visual Studio Marketplace. The extension targets YINI Specification 1.0.0 RC 6 and adds syntax highlighting for .yini configuration files directly in VS Code. It highlights YINI sections, keys, values, strings, numbers, comments, lists, ob

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Padrão de Projeto Decorator: Adicionando Funcionalidades sem Quebrar sua Arquitetura

Se você já trabalhou com orientação a objetos por algum tempo, provavelmente já se deparou com este dilema: como adicionar novas funcionalidades a um objeto sem criar uma explosão de subclasses? Imagine um sistema de componentes gráficos onde você precisa combinar bordas, sombras, cores e efeitos de diferentes formas. Criar uma subclasse para cada combinação possível rapidamente se torna insustentável. É exatamente para resolver esse tipo de problema que existe o Decorator, um dos padrões de pro

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XML Configuration Mode: Decoupling Your API Catalog from Business Code

Annotation mode keeps requests close to Java, but large integrations raise a fair question: do I want a wall of curl strings inside my service interfaces? JQuickCurl's XML mode answers with a firm no — you store every API definition in a separate XML file, and the business layer only sees plain Java interfaces with no annotations at all. This is the classic "declarative client" split: contract in configuration, behavior in code. In this post you'll learn to: Author an XML API catalog with the of

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Missing RLS: The Most Underrated Breach Cause of 2026

You know why there are so many breaches in databases? Perfect, me neither. Let's find out in a few minutes. Everyone worries about encryption. Almost nobody worries enough about the one thing that's actually been breaking production databases all year: a table with Row Level Security simply left off. I ran into this while researching how to safely migrate Firestore Security Rules into Postgres RLS policies for a side project. What started as "how do I translate this correctly" turned into "oh, t

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Building a Freelance Rate Calculator for Mexico with Plain HTML and JavaScript

Freelancers in Mexico often start with a tempting formula: take the monthly income they want, divide it by the number of hours they expect to work, and publish that number as an hourly rate. The result is usually too low because it treats every working hour as billable and ignores operating costs, time off, and uncertainty. This article shows how I built a small, privacy-first freelance rate calculator in plain HTML and JavaScript. It makes the assumptions visible without an account, upload, fra

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I built a chat where every word costs money — on TON, solo, no legal entity

Hi! I'm a mobile developer (Kotlin by day), and a couple of weeks ago I started a side project with a simple, slightly audacious idea: a chat where sending a message costs money — and the recipient gets paid. You write "hi", you pay. Someone writes to you, you earn. This is the story of how "what if attention literally had a price" became a working Telegram Mini App with real on-chain transactions — and the rakes I stepped on along the way, from app store rules to the anatomy of TON gas. An LLM

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