Your Company's AI Strategy Is EMBARRASSING And Everyone Knows It

Your company just announced a new AI initiative. You hired a Head of AI. You’re “exploring use cases.” You have 56 meetings on your calendar about it. And your engineers? They’re laughing at you. Not with you. AT you. The worst part? You have no idea. After two decades in technology and software engineering, I’ve watched this pattern repeat itself across countless organizations. Let me show you exactly why your AI strategy is failing—and what you can do about it. ...

December 17, 2025 · 4 min · 665 words · Necati Demir

How Two Ancient Greeks Created Modern AI (Without Knowing It)

At the heart of both philosophy and computer science lies a single, crucial question: How do we build a model of the world? Plato and Aristotle approached this question from completely opposite directions, and their answers map almost perfectly onto modern programming and machine learning approaches. Plato’s Perfect Forms in Your Code Plato believed everything we see is an imperfect copy of a perfect, unchanging form. Take a circle you draw on paper, according to Plato, it’s just an imperfect representation of a perfect circle that exists as an abstract form, with exact mathematical properties no physical circle can fully achieve. ...

September 9, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Necati Demir

GPT-5 Fast vs Thinking vs Pro: How They Actually Work

OpenAI recently released the GPT-5 family, introducing three distinct options for Pro users: GPT-5 Fast, GPT-5 Thinking, and GPT-5 Pro. While it’s common knowledge that GPT-5 Fast handles simple tasks and GPT-5 Pro tackles complex ones, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear to many users. This post provides a concise explanation of how each variant operates and when to use them effectively. GPT-5 Fast For the context of this article, we will use GPT-5 Fast as our base model, think of it as a black box optimized for speed, good old LLM. When you submit a query, it processes the request and delivers an answer quickly without extensive deliberation. ...

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 454 words · Necati Demir