Taming AI, not just thinking about it
I don't just think about AI — I tame it: bending real models into real products, and learning where they bend and where they bite. Field notes from that work, plus the bigger questions it surfaces — what AI really changes for engineers, for work, and for the rest of us — argued from inside the build, not the hype cycle.
Build in Public 2.0: The New Playbook for Sharing Openly in the Age of AI Cloning
For years, there was an almost sacred rule in the software world: share everything openly. Verifying revenue graphs with Stripe screenshots, tweeting database schemas, detailing go-to-market (GTM) strategies down to the last keyword... This radical transparency was the ultimate shortcut to building trust at an early stage while securing an organic distribution channel.
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AI Citations Run on a Separate Clock: What Google's Generative AI Data Revealed
Days after Bing's Citation Share, Google added a Generative AI report to Search Console. The second first-party dataset forced me to revise the mechanism I had proposed, and showed how differently the two engines move.
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The Threshold Collapsed to Zero: Building in Public in the Age of AI Cloning
Arvid Kahl, one of the pioneers of the "build in public" movement in the software world, made a confession in recent months (April 2026) that fundamentally shook his own thesis. After years of advocating for sharing metrics, processes, and financial data transparently, Kahl stated that the "safe sharing threshold has collapsed to zero" due to the speed AI has reached. Now, every metric and architectural detail you share openly turns into a cloning blueprint that AI agents can replicate over a weekend.
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The Era of the "Previous Vibe Coder" Begins: The Invisibility of Clean Code and the Technical Debt Bill of AI
An analysis of the false speed illusion of AI coding, DRY violations, the devaluation of invisible quality using Akerlof's Market for Lemons, and the upcoming crisis of the 'Previous Vibe Coder'.
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The Job AI Won't Take — and the Five It Quietly Prevents
Altman and Amodei walked back their AI job-apocalypse warnings. They're watching the wrong variable. The damage was never layoffs — it's the hires that quietly never happen. A view from both sides of the decision: CTO by day, founder by night.
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Comprehension Debt: The Bill Comes Due Alone
I ship with AI coding agents daily. What breaks isn't the code — it's comprehension. And working solo, there's no one to absorb that debt but you.
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The AI Visibility Illusion: What Bing's Citation Share Data Actually Reveals
A new category of consultants and SaaS tools is selling 'AI Visibility' optimization. Then Bing released its first real citation data — and it told a very uncomfortable story.
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The New Evrenbal.com: A New Era and Blogging Philosophy
Why I moved away from WordPress to a Nuxt & Cloudflare Pages Git-based setup, the changing value of technical writing in the AI era, and my new blogging philosophy.
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The End of Coding or a New Renaissance? The Invisible Crisis of AI
Have you felt that shift in the air lately when scrolling through LinkedIn or reading tech news? You know the ones—those flashy videos titled "I built a…
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Raising Children in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
On social media I usually share technical or work-related topics. But behind that “tech guy” image there’s also a dad with a 9-year-old son at home. Most…
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Beyond the bot: lessons from building a chat system for global patients
A year of running a real medical chatbot, VaniBot — what it taught me about trust, multichannel integration, real cost, and choosing a hosted LLM over open source.
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An SEO Experiment in a Low-Competition SERP with Google Maps and OpenAI
How I built camiler.org using Fastify, Nuxt 3, Google Maps API, and OpenAI to target a low-competition, high-volume search niche.
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