currently @ Refik Anadol Studio · building Dataland

Mert Cobanov

senior ai engineer · los angeles / istanbul

building ai agents with complex memory. backend systems, vector databases, training diffusion models, and generative ai pipelines. mostly python, fastapi, and pydantic ai.

writing about ai engineering, homelabs, and whatever i'm tinkering with.

// Writing

RECENT

KV Cache & Flash Attention LLM inference optimizations, one at a time — a smarter cache, a faster kernel, a better scheduler. Eleven sections pairing Python with animated diagrams. 2026.05.19
How AI agent memory works Language models forget the moment they finish replying. Memory is everything the system around them does to make that not matter. 2026.05.07
From latent spaces to JWTs: how agents taught me backend I wrote code every day for years and somehow felt like I wasn't really writing code. Let me explain. 2026.03.28
How I connected my Tesla to Claude I built an MCP server so I could chat with my Tesla. Here's how. 2025.06.10
The generative AI revolution I witnessed An arc from Disco Diffusion to today, written by someone who watched it happen and never bet against it. 2024.12.15

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// Libraries

06 ITEMS

semaclust

GitHub · PyPI ·

Semantic text clustering using sentence embeddings and agglomerative clustering.
bucketsampler

GitHub · PyPI ·

Aspect ratio bucketing for diffusion model training. PyTorch native, DDP correct.
tasnif

GitHub · PyPI ·

Unsupervised image clustering with modern deep embeddings, PCA and K-Means.
depth2normal

GitHub · PyPI ·

Convert depth map images to RGB normal maps for shading and 3D workflows.
websum

GitHub · PyPI ·

Summarize web pages and YouTube videos with pluggable LLM backends.
kamera

GitHub · PyPI ·

Realtime webcam streaming and video processing with a FastAPI UI.