Mert Cobanov
Senior AI engineer building agents with complex memory: backend systems, vector databases, diffusion model training, and generative pipelines. Mostly Python, FastAPI, and Pydantic AI.
Writing about AI engineering, homelabs, and whatever I'm tinkering with
Writing
- KV Cache & Flash Attention LLM inference optimizations, one at a time: a smarter cache, a faster kernel, a better scheduler.
- 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.
- 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.
- How I connected my Tesla to Claude I built an MCP server so I could chat with my Tesla. Here's how.
- 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.
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Projects
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Ollaya
1.1kOllama for decision models: pull and serve Laya, decider, NLI and GLiClass locally behind a TypeSafe-compatible API.
ollaya.dev
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PS5LM
7llama.cpp on a jailbroken PlayStation 5. Open language models run on the console's own CPU, and you chat with them in its browser.
ps5lm.cobanov.dev
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Ahead
A bilingual daily briefing that turns the AI and technology news cycle into a sourced five-minute morning read.
ahead.cobanov.dev
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Fly Dino
21The original Chromium Dino controlled by a measured fly connectome circuit and a genuinely trained neural readout.
flydino.cobanov.dev
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Android TV cleanup
66A reversible, no-root guide and ready-made prompt for removing ads and factory clutter from Android TV.
tv.cobanov.dev
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tshare
Drop a file, get a link, gone in 24 hours. A temporary file drop for people, terminals and coding agents.
share.cobanov.dev
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terminal.army
A multiplayer space strategy game you play from your terminal.
terminal.army
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herdrchat
6Control your coding agents from your phone, on iOS and Android.
herdrchat.cobanov.dev
Libraries
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Semantic text clustering using sentence embeddings and agglomerative clustering.
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Aspect ratio bucketing for diffusion model training. PyTorch native, DDP correct.
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Unsupervised image clustering with modern deep embeddings, PCA and K-Means.
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depth2normal 116
pypiConvert depth map images to RGB normal maps for shading and 3D workflows.
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Summarize web pages and YouTube videos with pluggable LLM backends.
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Realtime webcam streaming and video processing with a FastAPI UI.
Contact
Based in Los Angeles. Open to interesting projects, collaborations, and long emails about AI, art, and tooling.