MÖMehmet Öner Yalçıninoneryalcin.hashnode.dev·Sep 12 · 7 min readSetFit, but with imagesA few weeks ago Daniel van Strien wrote up how he used agents to build a classifier for data curation: an agent labels a couple of hundred PDFs under a human-reviewed guide, SetFit trains a small clas00
MÖMehmet Öner Yalçıninoneryalcin.hashnode.dev·Jul 13 · 9 min readWhat Happens When Your 50,000-Item API Job Dies?A public embedding pipeline, two injected failures, and the job-level runtime a thread pool does not provide. You have 50,000 document chunks to embed. Eight workers are sending batches to an API. The00
MÖMehmet Öner Yalçıninoneryalcin.hashnode.dev·Mar 30 · 9 min readDesigning A Retrieval Stack For AgentsThe main lesson is simple: retrieval for agents is not just “search, then answer.” It is a control system. The tools you expose, the names you give them, the shapes of their outputs, and the order the00
MÖMehmet Öner Yalçıninoneryalcin.hashnode.dev·Mar 27 · 12 min readYour Linter Just Broke ProductionContract tests for the gaps between your linter and production We ran ruff check --fix on a Python service. 71 unused imports removed. Tests passed. CI green. We nearly shipped a change that would ha00
MÖMehmet Öner Yalçıninoneryalcin.hashnode.dev·Jul 22, 2025 · 14 min readBuilding a Semantic Highlighter: Understanding Search Result Presentation Through Machine Learning - Part 2Part 2: Building a Semantic Highlighter from Scratch Chapter 1: The Foundation - Understanding Our Tools Let's build our semantic highlighter piece by piece. I'll be your guide, and we'll construct each component while understanding why it exists. Fi...00
