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Ideas, frameworks, and playbooks for modern product teams.

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

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December 7, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Distributed Inference and Load Balancing: Serving LLMs at Planet Scale

A systems-level guide to distributed inference, load balancing, and traffic shaping for large-scale LLM services.

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December 6, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

AI Model Evaluation Playbook: Metrics, Benchmarks, and Reality Checks

How to evaluate AI models with the right metrics, human review loops, and production-grade benchmarks.

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December 6, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Benchmark Leakage and Contamination: Keeping Evaluation Honest

How to detect benchmark leakage, prevent contamination, and build reliable evaluation pipelines.

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December 5, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Architecture, Pitfalls, and Best Practices

A practical guide to building RAG systems that are accurate, fast, and easy to maintain in production.

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December 5, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Kernel Fusion and Inference Kernels: Squeezing Latency Out of GPUs

A deep dive into kernel fusion, custom kernels, and GPU-level optimizations for fast LLM inference.

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December 4, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

LLM Architecture From Scratch: The Building Blocks That Matter

A clear, technical walk-through of modern LLM architecture, from tokenization and attention to training loops and inference trade-offs.

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December 4, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Differential Privacy for LLM Training: Protecting Data at Scale

A practical guide to applying differential privacy in LLM training without destroying model utility.

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Low-level systems code running on a developer workstation.
December 4, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

C and C++ in AI Systems: The Performance Layer Behind Modern ML

A professional deep dive into how C and C++ power AI systems under Python, from kernels and runtimes to deployment at scale.

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December 3, 20253 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Shipping Fast Without Burning Out: A Sustainable Release Rhythm

A sustainable release rhythm for small teams: weekly cadence, focus rituals, quality systems, and energy-aware planning.

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December 3, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Multi-Tenant Token Budgeting: Fairness, Cost, and Performance

Designing token budgets for multi-tenant LLM systems while preserving fairness and latency targets.

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December 3, 20252 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

Model Ensemble Strategies: Aggregating Confidence for Better Answers

How to use model ensembles to improve accuracy, confidence, and robustness in LLM systems.

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December 2, 20253 min readBy Ugur Yildirim

AI Product Design Checklist for 2026

A practical AI product design checklist covering trust boundaries, feedback loops, reliability, and launch operations.

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