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Gökhan Ercan
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The best programmers today will be the next generation of product managers.
Companies should stop this non-technical “Product Owner + Scrum Master” nonsense and start empowering their strongest engineers to own, prioritize, and deliver the backlog.
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Oct 3, 2026
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A pleasure to teach Agentic AI this term at Istanbul Technical University.
We covered 17 agentic patterns: Agentic RAG, ReAct, Memory, Guardrails, multi-agent, Graph-of-Thoughts. Best part: seeing 40 student projects move from "use an LLM" to "design an agent."
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Jun 25, 2026
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My latest paper is out in IEEE Access:
📄Grammar or Crammer? The Role of Morphology in Distinguishing Orthographically Similar but Semantically Unrelated Words
A 47-page study on morphology and semantic modeling in English and Turkish.
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Jun 11, 2025
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“As a leader, you’re the force multiplier for your organization. Force multiplying is a vector quantity, not a scalar quantity. It’s a vector quantity because the direction is very important. It’s not just the magnitude. It’s the direction, too.”
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Feb 27, 2025
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Let’s come up with a new name for
#Agile
, create our own backlogs, and start fresh. Keep it secret from the business folks.
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Nov 12, 2024
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"...I don't think that anybody really thinks that AlphaGo is happy when it wins the game..."
"...We can use a knife to cook and to kill.."
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens) versus Yann Le Cun (Meta) on artificial intelligence
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@LePoint
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May 16, 2023
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