Right now, Alhena AI is processing one shopper query every 3 seconds. By Cyber Monday, that will jump to one query every other second. That is a more than 20X surge in architectural load since last year. On days like Cyber Monday or Black Friday, our systems have to scale proportionately with the 2x-3x spike. …
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ON THE EVE OF BFCM, OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into a shopping research engine. But, we are not here to talk about that.. š„ ANNOUNCING: We are proud to launch Alhena Voice Mode Shopping just in time for BFCM. We are changing how voice is used in shopping based on a core principle: š Voice …
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OpenAI may have finally overplayed their hand. š. Its not the model quality though.. 5.1 is really good My ChatGPT usage has tanked. Gemini has taken over. The killer feature? Native Chrome integration + Gemini3. The ability to prompt with full context of my current browser tab, without switching apps or copying text is a …
āCan you lower the price? Youāre just a ChatGPT wrapper, right?ā I woke up to an email from a prospect this morning that stopped me in my tracks.They wanted a steep discount. Their logic? Since we use LLMs, we must just be a “wrapper.” I had to be honest in my reply (see below š). …
This Black Friday will be the first when AI Agents will be selling alongside human sales associates. #BFCM #eCommerce #AgenticCommerce View on LinkedIn
For the last 20 years, e-commerce has been trapped in a grid of static filters. Checkboxes, dropdowns, and endless scrolling. We force humans to speak the language of databases. How many times have you applied 5 different filters on a shopping site, only to end up with “0 results found” or a page of irrelevant …
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Over the last few months, Iāve been interviewing operators who are actually doing the work: not just talking about AI, but deploying it. When I sat down with leaders like Ben O’Donnell, Michael Ohayon and Jake Baron, I expected to hear about cutting-edge tech stacks. Instead, the most consistent theme was “pragmatism”. The most consistent …
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Since yesterday Iāve been digging into Gemini 3 and why everyone is going crazy over it. My takeaway: this is a real divergence in capability that should make us rethink how we architect applications.Here are the key implications for enterprise architects and developers: š§ System 2 reasoning & āthinking tokensā Latency is no longer a …
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What a morning. Thanks to the Cloudflare outage, Alhenaās engineering team has been up since 3:30am keeping things steady. When X/Twitter, ChatGPT, and a big chunk of the internet go down, itās a good reminder of how interconnected everything really is. The hardest part isnāt the outage itself, itās the cleanup afterward:– webhooks silently auto-disabling …