kaganerkan
Code, AI & videos
About
Hello. Greetings, internet dweller. I’m Kağan Erkan, a Turkish high-school student. I write code, test AI models, and make technology videos. This is where I share my personal blog, AI-assisted tech news, and work on YouTube and GitHub.
Kağan Erkan is a Turkish high school student, award-winning software developer, and technology creator with extensive programming experience beginning in first grade. His work spans artificial intelligence, AI benchmarking, local AI infrastructure, software engineering, and multidisciplinary research and development. He has received multiple national awards in programming and electrical engineering through competitions organized by Codeavour, the Turkish–Japanese Foundation, and other organizations. Internationally, he earned first place for a research and development project at a Stanford Medicine–associated event involving more than 200 student participants. Having started programming in elementary school, Kağan has progressively expanded his work into multidisciplinary engineering and research projects throughout high school, combining software development, hardware systems, and practical experimentation. His work focuses on developing, testing, and evaluating technologies through independent projects, with particular interests in artificial intelligence, engineering, and real-world applications of emerging technologies.
Latest blog posts
AI Ethics
My stance on AI: training on public work, originality, accountability, and where human authorship still matters.
The First Post
IELTS, study plans, building in public, and why I keep a human-made channel and blog alongside an AI-assisted pipeline.
Latest news
Mistral Large 4: Tool-Use Friction
Mistral Large 4’s benchmark setup, the limits of its token-efficiency claims, and a proposed test for the unconventional tools in my workflow.
Coding Agents: Malicious Instructions
A reported agent-instruction attack, its authorization boundaries, and a harmless eight-case simulation of approvals enforced outside the model.
Mercury-3 vs GPT-6 Luna: What Does Speed Actually Buy?
Mercury-3 generated tokens about five times faster than GPT-6 Luna, but Luna produced the better Cookie Clicker game with fewer requests and a lower estimated bill.
