Yazılar / Writinghttps://ertac.paprat.com/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/corporate-bs-vs-startup-truth/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/corporate-bs-vs-startup-truth/The difference between a team that experiments and one that performs enthusiasm often lies in who receives the reward and who inherits the risk.Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:30:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/why-reading-code-is-hard-even-your-own/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/why-reading-code-is-hard-even-your-own/Better names help, but understanding old code also requires the rule, the boundary case, and the reason someone chose it.Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/self-improving-ai-models-automatic-coding-nas-agi/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/self-improving-ai-models-automatic-coding-nas-agi/Neural architecture search, agent modification, and code optimization change different things. Recent research becomes clearer when those objects stay separate.Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/teen-user-behavior-patterns-unicorn-startups/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/teen-user-behavior-patterns-unicorn-startups/Teen communication habits reveal tensions around identity, audience, and social risk. They do not provide a formula for building a unicorn.Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/advanced-ai-driven-development-with-cursor-guide/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/advanced-ai-driven-development-with-cursor-guide/Use one bounded change to connect repository context, project rules, tests, and diff review in Cursor’s editor workflow.Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/claude-code-cursor-llm-comparison/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/claude-code-cursor-llm-comparison/Separate the editor, coding agent, and model in a Claude Code and Cursor comparison; learn what a fair test would need before drawing conclusions.Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/rethinking-coding-agents-with-rag-and-agentic-intelligence/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/rethinking-coding-agents-with-rag-and-agentic-intelligence/Repository retrieval needs to find the rule behind a change, not merely the code whose name resembles the prompt.Tue, 20 May 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/what-should-you-focus-on-when-vibe-coding/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/what-should-you-focus-on-when-vibe-coding/Before sharing an AI-built app, test the first-time user, the wrong account, and the failed request—not just the successful demo.Sun, 18 May 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/solopreneur-unicorn-ai/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/solopreneur-unicorn-ai/AI can reduce the work of building a product. The harder constraint may be the flow of exceptions after customers arrive.Mon, 12 May 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-in-ui-ux-design/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-in-ui-ux-design/A generated form is a starting point. Its error states, keyboard behavior, and assumptions about users determine whether it is usable.Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/future-of-machine-learning-trends/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/future-of-machine-learning-trends/Reasoning time, evaluation quality, and deployment constraints are more useful lenses than a list of technologies declared to be the future.Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/what-should-you-really-focus-on-when-vibe-coding/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/what-should-you-really-focus-on-when-vibe-coding/A working prototype is useful evidence. It stops being enough when the software handles permissions, money, or state you need to recover.Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/why-developers-push-back-and-how-to-overcome-it/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/why-developers-push-back-and-how-to-overcome-it/Developers’ objections to AI tools can reveal missing evidence, hidden review work, or an uneven distribution of risk.Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/productivity-tips-for-software-developers/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/productivity-tips-for-software-developers/Look at waiting, interruptions, and unfinished work before trying to type faster or optimize every hour.Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/my-journey-into-data-science/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/my-journey-into-data-science/I studied physics and economics, researched Turkish sentiment analysis in computer science, and later moved into software products and entrepreneurship.Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-rag-tech-blogger/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-rag-tech-blogger/A tiny retrieval example shows how a technical-writing assistant can use evidence without confusing retrieval with editorial judgment.Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-smart-documentation/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-smart-documentation/Generated documentation becomes useful when its examples can be checked and its explanation distinguishes code behavior from design intent.Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-assisted-debugging-future/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-assisted-debugging-future/Use an AI assistant to propose debugging hypotheses, then make each hypothesis face a test that could disprove it.Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-pairing-boosting-developer-workflow/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-pairing-boosting-developer-workflow/AI can produce a plausible implementation quickly. A small billing example shows why the developer still has to supply the missing rule.Tue, 14 May 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ethical-ai-development/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ethical-ai-development/A support-triage example turns broad AI ethics principles into concrete decisions about evidence, appeal, and responsibility.Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/bias-in-ai-understanding-mitigation/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/bias-in-ai-understanding-mitigation/A worked example shows how equal accuracy can conceal unequal errors—and why fixing bias requires more than balancing a dataset.Sat, 09 Mar 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/python-for-data-science-libraries/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/python-for-data-science-libraries/Use pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib to investigate delivery delays without turning a small analysis into a framework collection.Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/evaluating-ml-model-regression-metrics/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/evaluating-ml-model-regression-metrics/MAE and RMSE disagree for a reason. A three-prediction example makes that reason visible, then puts R-squared in context.Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/evaluating-ml-model-classification-metrics/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/evaluating-ml-model-classification-metrics/One confusion matrix explains precision, recall, F1, and why a strong-looking accuracy score can describe a frustrating product.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/overfitting-vs-underfitting-ml/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/overfitting-vs-underfitting-ml/Compare overfitting and underfitting through training and validation scores, then check data leakage, model capacity, and data quality before changing the model.Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/common-ml-algorithms-overview/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/common-ml-algorithms-overview/A practical way to choose a machine-learning model: establish what a simple system achieves, then make complexity earn its place.Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/unsupervised-learning-unlabeled-data/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/unsupervised-learning-unlabeled-data/Unsupervised learning can reveal structure, but the distance measure, input scale, and interpretation still come from us.Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/supervised-learning-labeled-data/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/supervised-learning-labeled-data/Supervised learning depends on labeled examples. The difficult part is often deciding what those labels should mean.Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/feature-engineering-importance-ml/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/feature-engineering-importance-ml/A delivery predictor explains why feature availability matters more than an impressive validation score.Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/data-cleaning-importance/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/data-cleaning-importance/Missing values, duplicates, and outliers are not interchangeable defects. A small delivery table shows why cleaning needs context.Wed, 17 May 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/key-ml-concepts-features-labels-models/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/key-ml-concepts-features-labels-models/Features, labels, and models explained through a delivery prediction—and the timestamp that makes the example work.Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-vs-ml-vs-deep-learning/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/ai-vs-ml-vs-deep-learning/See how rules, machine learning, and deep learning handle the same spam-filtering task and where each approach fits within AI.Sun, 12 Mar 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/what-is-machine-learning-beginners/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/what-is-machine-learning-beginners/Learn what machine learning changes by following a spam filter from handwritten rules to patterns learned from examples.Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:00:00 GMThttps://ertac.paprat.com/blog/introduction-to-data-science/https://ertac.paprat.com/blog/introduction-to-data-science/A churn investigation shows what data scientists actually do: define the question, challenge the measurement, and decide whether prediction would help.Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:00:00 GMT