Yiğit Altunay is a senior software engineer with 6+ years in backend systems: Go services, message queues, distributed databases and cloud infrastructure at Hepsiburada.https://yigitaltunay.com/en-ushttps://yigitaltunay.com/blog/hello-again/https://yigitaltunay.com/blog/hello-again/Ten years after my first domain and too many abandoned WordPress installs, I am finally writing. Building with AI, and everything I learn along the way.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>import { Image } from 'astro:assets'; import terminal from '../../assets/hello-again-terminal.svg';</p> <p>&lt;Image src={terminal} alt="A terminal window showing a timeline from 2016 to 2026, ending with: hello again" loading="eager" /&gt;</p> <p>Hi, I'm Yigit.</p> <p>I bought my first domain back in 2016. The golden age of AdSense, when everyone and their cousin was building websites. I built mine too. Honestly, that's when I wrote the most code in my life. Digging through forums to figure something out, poking at a broken theme at midnight, saying "okay, it works" at 4 AM. Good times.</p> <p>Most of what I wrote back then was web stuff. Then things grew; software became my job and I went well beyond the web. I've built payment systems, wrestled with complex distributed systems, shipped mobile apps, even dabbled in game development. Still actively building, too. So this site isn't a hobby corner. I'll be writing from the kitchen, not the menu.</p> <p>But my own site was always the neglected child. I used WordPress for years; installed it, changed themes, updated plugins, then forgot about it. Every couple of years I'd rebuild the whole site telling myself "this time I'll actually write", and then not write. It became a tradition.</p> <p>This time I wanted it to be different. I rebuilt the site from scratch. No WordPress, no admin panel, no plugins to update. Just the writing. Well, there will be.</p> <p>Here's the funny part: what took me a whole night to learn in 2016, you can now learn in half an hour with AI. Learning at 2016 speed isn't even a luxury anymore, it's a loss. That's actually where most of my time goes these days: building with AI. What I use, how I use it, where it delivers, where it leaves me stranded. That's what I plan to write about. I've been part of tech communities for a long time, and most of what we talk about there stays there. I'll be bringing some of that here too. Plus those problems that take a full day to solve but ten minutes to explain. Especially those.</p> <p>By the way, I should mention: my AI copy isn't fully me yet. But this stuff moves fast, so one day it probably will be. Until then, I'll be writing these posts myself. After that, no promises.</p> <p>If you're reading this, welcome. There's an <a href="/rss.xml">RSS feed</a> if you want to follow along.</p> metaai