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Team reviewing safety policies and decision flows.
December 25, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Safety Policy Orchestration: Enforcing Rules Across LLM Pipelines

A practical architecture for enforcing safety policies across prompts, tools, and output layers.

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Engineers validating information on a shared screen.
December 24, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Hallucination Mitigation Systems: Engineering for Factuality

A systems-level approach to reducing hallucinations using retrieval, verification, and structured generation.

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Knowledge management and access control planning.
December 24, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Governed Knowledge Bases: Trust, Versioning, and Access Control

A framework for building governed knowledge bases with provenance, versioning, and access control.

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Laptop with data workflows on screen.
December 23, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Synthetic Data for LLMs: Quality, Diversity, and Safety

How to generate synthetic data that improves model performance without amplifying bias or noise.

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Performance profiling dashboards on a workstation.
December 23, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Latency Profiling and Optimization: Finding the Real Bottlenecks

How to profile LLM latency end-to-end and optimize the slowest paths in production.

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Close-up of high-performance computing hardware.
December 22, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

KV Cache and Attention Optimization: The Hidden Performance Layer

A deep technical guide to KV caching, attention optimization, and memory-aware serving for LLMs.

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Knowledge hierarchy visualization on a whiteboard.
December 22, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Hierarchical Retrieval and Chunking: Scaling Knowledge Without Noise

A technical guide to hierarchical retrieval, chunking strategies, and multi-stage evidence selection.

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Analyst reviewing data pipeline notes on a desk.
December 21, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Data Pipeline Design: From Collection to Continuous Refresh

Engineering a reliable data pipeline for LLMs, including sourcing, filtering, deduplication, and ongoing refresh strategies.

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Token budget planning across different model components.
December 21, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Context Window Allocation: Budgeting Tokens for Maximum Signal

How to allocate context windows across system prompts, memory, and retrieval to maximize model performance.

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Sunrise over a landscape symbolizing model alignment.
December 20, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

RLHF and Preference Optimization: Aligning LLMs With Real Users

A deep dive into RLHF pipelines, preference data, and practical alignment strategies for production LLMs.

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Observability dashboards showing model traces.
December 20, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Observability and Tracing: Seeing What the Model Actually Did

A practical guide to tracing, logging, and debugging LLM workflows in production systems.

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Hands analyzing data reports on a desk.
December 19, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Causal Reasoning for LLM Systems: From Correlation to Control

A technical guide to causal reasoning in AI systems, with practical patterns for reducing spurious correlations in LLM workflows.

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