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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teslamate-mcp 134
MCP server that lets AI assistants query your TeslaMate database in natural language.
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autocut 46
Drop a video, remove silent gaps, export MP4 or send the timeline to DaVinci Resolve / Premiere.
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Instagram Unfollowers 29
Find and unfollow people who don't follow you back on Instagram.
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berryssh 20
SSH client for BlackBerry OS 7 — a plain MIDP/CLDC MIDlet doing curve25519, ed25519 and chacha20-poly1305.
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pspssh 5
SSH client for the PlayStation Portable that talks to a modern OpenSSH — no weakened ciphers on the server side.
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watchdock 3
Self-hosted Docker watchdog — one dashboard for local and remote SSH hosts, with crash and recovery alerts pushed to your phone.
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herdrchat
Control your coding agents from your phone, on iOS and Android.
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better-tailscale-ls 9
A nicer tailscale status: colored, sorted, filterable, with online/offline counts and badges.
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sshls 3
A colorful, at-a-glance list of active SSH sessions across your fleet.
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terminal.army 4
A multiplayer space strategy game you play from your terminal.
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Soft Club UI 7
React component library and shadcn-compatible registry for late-90s green-glass interfaces.
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Pathbook
Create, share, fork, and track learning paths.
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Bartainer
macOS menu bar app for managing local and remote Docker containers.
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Screenfit
Quick screen-fit utility.
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 113
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.