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
My AI Ethics: Training Data and Accountability
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
How to Compare AI Coding Agents: Speed, Cost and Working Code
Evaluate AI coding agents using completed tasks, end-to-end time, total attempt cost and reproducible checks instead of token speed alone.
Markdown to PDF: Keep Fonts, Turkish Characters and Searchable Text
A practical Markdown-to-PDF workflow for custom fonts, Turkish characters, page breaks and selectable text, with checks for the final exported file.
How to Redact a PDF: Why Black Boxes Are Not Enough
Learn the difference between covering and removing PDF content, how hidden text can survive, and what to check before sharing a redacted file.
