I've engineered software for 25+ years. With AI's power behind me, I build more ambitiously than ever — and write, from the trenches, about what AI actually changes.
Essays
1M Impressions per Month, $0 Revenue: A Programmatic SEO Post-Mortem
I reached a million Google Search impressions with more than 10K clicks a month, yet generated zero dollars. Here is the post-mortem of camiler.org.
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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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Cash or Installments? – The Story Behind PeşinTaksit
Financial decisions aren’t always rational — especially in environments where inflation moves faster than logic. In Turkey, where annual inflation has…
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Redar: AI-Powered Summaries for KAP Disclosures and Open Sources
Financial information in Turkey moves fast, and most of it arrives in dense, inconsistent formats. Redar is my answer: an AI-assisted analysis system that…
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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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How I Built a Modern Infrastructure Using Open Source Tools and the Power of Cloudflare
Behind the scenes of camiler.org: A modern, Dockerized infrastructure built on open source tools and Cloudflare, optimized to run on a single small VPS.
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From Rules to Decisions: The Real-Time Sales Intelligence Platform We Built at Vanity
How we transformed Vanity's manual lead routing into a real-time, automated decision support and sales force management engine handling 100K yearly leads.
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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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Why I’m Building RankExtension: Making Google Search Console Actually Make Sense
Google Search Console is full of numbers—clicks, impressions, CTR, average position. Let's look at why I'm designing a browser extension to bring clarity.
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