Artificial Intelligence
The AI Divide: Why Internet Speed Matters More Than Chip Speed
In the emerging world, "Edge AI" is a luxury. The real revolution is happening in the cloud, where latency is the new literacy and fiber is the new oil.
Apple
Apple Journal x Gemini: The Memory is About to Level Up
Your diary is a digital graveyard. With Gemini, it’s about to become an active analyst. The "Quantified Self" is dead; the "Analyzed Self" is here.
Artificial Intelligence
Let Them Steal Your IP: Why GenAI Fan Art is the Ultimate Growth Hack
The copyright wars are over. The remix wars have begun. Smart brands aren't suing creators; they are hiring them. Inspiration: Scrolling Facebook and seeing a fan-made Batman poster that looked better than the official one, and realizing I wanted to see that movie more. When GenAI first dropped,
Artificial Intelligence
Before We Get AGI, We Need “The Face”
Text is efficient. Voice is convenient. But humans are biologically wired to trust only one interface: A Face. Inspiration: Watching my friends ignore a perfect ChatGPT answer, only to watch a 15-minute YouTube video of a guy saying the exact same thing because they trusted his face. Tech people love
Artificial Intelligence
The Future of iPhones Depends on Google
Apple Intelligence is good at privacy, but bad at thinking. To save the iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple just outsourced its brain to Google. (This post, like many others, was originally posted in 2025, before I migrated this site from WordPress to Ghost infrastructure). Inspiration: Realizing that “Siri” is still dumb
Personal
Using AI for Personal Growth: Let It Get to Know You
Stop treating AI like a search engine. Start treating it like a mirror that remembers everything you forget. Inspiration: The moment I asked my AI to roast my life choices, and it gave better advice than my therapist. For years, my relationship with AI was transactional. “Hi, I’m Barbaros.
Artificial Intelligence
First BFCM with GenAI: Ad Creative Strategy in 2025
The tools finally caught up to the hype. This year, we didn't just "play" with AI; we built our entire Black Friday strategy on it. Inspiration: Early performance surprises and the realization that I could generate 50 high-quality ad variants in the time it used to
Google: Rebranding is Inevitable
"Googling" is dying. To survive the Agentic Age, the world's biggest search engine needs to stop being a search engine. Inspiration: The confusion of explaining “Gemini for Workspace” to my mom, and the sheer brilliance of Mark Zuckerberg’s “Meta” pivot. Remember when Facebook became Meta?