A blog about development and life.https://alituncgenc.com/enhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w27/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w27/This week I consumed 18 manga, 9 anime, 3 films, 2 TV shows, 9 articles, and 2 podcasts.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w26/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w26/This week I consumed 14 manga, 13 anime, 4 films, 3 TV shows, 9 articles, and 1 podcast.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w25/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w25/This week I consumed 13 manga, 16 anime, 2 films, 3 TV shows, 11 articles, and 2 podcasts.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w24/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w24/This week I consumed 14 manga, 18 anime, 1 film, 2 TV shows, 18 articles, and 2 podcasts.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w23/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w23/This week I consumed 12 manga, 17 anime, 1 film, 7 TV shows, 20 articles, and 1 podcast.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w22/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w22/This week I consumed 14 manga, 18 anime, 3 films, 4 TV shows, and 2 articles.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/thank-you-for-your-hard-work/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/thank-you-for-your-hard-work/I've watched When Life Gives You Tangerines on Netflix in the past month and it was very moving. As I complete this sentence, I detest the word "moving" in it. Moving how? Moving what? To better phrase it, watching this show is getting bombarded by flashbacks from your own life. There are so many checkpoints in life that are similar between humans that you realize we're all quite generic in the end.Mon, 25 May 2026 14:18:57 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/i-watched-eric-jang-rebuild-alphago-so-you-dont-have-to/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/i-watched-eric-jang-rebuild-alphago-so-you-dont-have-to/In April, Eric Jang spent two weeks rebuilding AlphaGo Zero from scratch, and put the result online as autogo along with a long, interactive write-up. Last week he sat down with Dwarkesh Patel for a two-and-a-half hour blackboard lecture on what he learned. The thread that holds the conversation together is a question about what the AlphaGo recipe still has to teach us in a world where the dominant paradigm has shifted to large language models trained with policy-gradient RL.Mon, 25 May 2026 09:11:08 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w21/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w21/This week I consumed 15 manga, 18 anime, 1 film, 4 TV shows, 12 articles, and 3 podcasts.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w20/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w20/This week I consumed 10 manga, 18 anime, 2 TV shows, 9 articles, and 3 podcasts.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w19/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w19/This week I consumed 10 manga, 19 anime, 6 TV shows, 1 game, and 21 articles.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w18/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w18/This week I consumed 6 manga, 17 anime, 2 films, 6 TV shows, 32 articles, and 4 podcasts.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/how-frontier-llms-are-trained-and-served/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/how-frontier-llms-are-trained-and-served/This article is based on my handwritten notes from Reiner Pope's blackboard-style interview with Dwarkesh Patel, plus cross-checks against the published transcript and Dwarkesh's flashcards made in preparation for this episode of the podcast.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w17/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w17/This week I consumed 12 manga, 16 anime, 3 films, 2 TV shows, 11 articles, and 2 podcasts.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w16/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w16/This week I consumed 11 manga, 19 anime, 1 film, 5 TV shows, 1 book, 8 articles, and 1 podcast.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w15/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w15/This week I consumed 7 manga, 17 anime, 2 TV shows, 9 articles, and 6 podcasts.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w14/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w14/This week I consumed 13 manga, 17 anime, 2 films, 2 TV shows, 10 articles, and 2 podcasts.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w13/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w13/This week I consumed 15 manga, 11 anime, 2 films, 2 TV shows, 3 articles, and 3 podcasts.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w12/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/media-log-2026-w12/This week I consumed 7 manga, 7 anime, 3 films, 2 TV shows, 1 book, 3 articles, and 3 YouTube videos.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/the-ai-ouroboros/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/the-ai-ouroboros/Or: The Market Discovers That Humans Were Load-BearingWed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/claude_code_vs_codex/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/claude_code_vs_codex/I hadn't touched anything code related for over a year by this point. My daily drivers back then were Cursor paired with Sonnet 3.7/3.5. So when I started work on building a CRM for my firm I was eager to play with all the new toys that were available to me. Opus 4.5 had come out and everyone was raving on how good it was.Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgençhttps://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/moh/https://alituncgenc.com/en/posts/moh/On X, I (anonymously) follow many AI researchers, jailbreakers, academics and prominent figures from both open- and closed-source research labs. It honestly feels like the closest thing to being in the room with these influential individuals and participating in the broader conversation about The Evolution and Progress of Artificial Intelligence. We are living through a very explosive and concentrated moment in history-where we are trying to ponder the task of creating something surpass/beyond us while trying to retain our humanity and our creations' autonomy. It is such a delicate need to thread, and I find it fascinating absorbing this knowledge during this critical time. It's not unthinkable that researchers at these major labs struggle to stay silent about what's going on at the frontier, which allows us to get a huge amount of knowledge just by following prominent researchers and thought leaders during this paradigm shift unfolds-not after it has passed. This immediacy offers us an unprecedented opportunity to take a glance behind the curtain, which would have been nearly impossible to access in earlier technological revolutions.Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTAli Tunçgenç