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Clear, practical articles about building digital products that people love. Short, useful, and built for teams that ship.

Planning and constraint diagrams on a whiteboard.
January 6, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Constraint Solving with LLMs: Hybrid Planning Pipelines

How to combine LLMs with constraint solvers for reliable planning and optimization.

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Team reviewing reasoning experiments on a display.
January 5, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Test-Time Compute Scaling: Self-Consistency and Reasoning Gains

A technical look at test-time compute strategies that improve reasoning without retraining the model.

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Mobile device running an on-device model demo.
January 5, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

On-Device LLM Deployment: Quantization, Latency, and Privacy

A practical guide to deploying LLMs on-device with quantization, memory limits, and privacy trade-offs.

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Researcher mapping a long-term learning plan.
January 4, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Continual Learning and Drift: Keeping LLMs Useful Over Time

How to update LLMs safely with new data while avoiding catastrophic forgetting and quality regressions.

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Multimodal pipeline diagram combining text and images.
January 4, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Multimodal RAG Pipelines: Grounding Answers Across Text and Images

How to build multimodal retrieval pipelines that combine text and visual evidence.

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Engineers reviewing model adaptation results.
January 3, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: LoRA, QLoRA, and Practical Trade-Offs

A hands-on guide to PEFT methods like LoRA and QLoRA, with deployment trade-offs for quality, cost, and speed.

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Long-form reasoning maps and evidence trails.
January 3, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Long-Form Reasoning Benchmarks: Beyond Short QA

A guide to evaluating long-form reasoning with multi-step tasks, evidence chains, and consistency checks.

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Compliance review documents on a desk.
January 2, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Foundation Model Governance: Policy, Risk, and Audit Readiness

A technical and operational guide to governing foundation models across safety, compliance, and auditability.

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Access control and permissions diagrams on a screen.
January 2, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Retrieval Security and Permissioned Indexes: Preventing Data Leakage

How to design retrieval systems with permission-aware indexing and secure access control.

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Developer workstation with code and compiler output.
January 1, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Coding Systems and Compilers: From Tokens to Verified Programs

How LLMs are integrated with compilers, static analysis, and verification to produce reliable code.

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Operational reliability dashboards for tool workflows.
January 1, 20262 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Tool Reliability Engineering: Retries, Idempotency, and Failure Taxonomies

A practical guide to making tool calls reliable in LLM workflows with retries, idempotency, and error handling.

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Laptop with code and neural network diagrams on screen.
December 31, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Mixture of Attention Routing: Smarter Context Allocation at Scale

A technical exploration of attention routing strategies that allocate context budget to the most relevant tokens.

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