Mert Guvencli

I like building things.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

@burakbayir Bedavadan biraz pahalıymış o zaman harika! 🙌

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

@AkbankDestek @Akbank Merhaba 👋 Adatepe Şubesi (Maltepe/İstanbul)

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

ATM’yi kullanırken bir anda localhost:8080’i görmek 😅 Yine canlıda test işi sanırım, hayır bu tarz teste alıştık ama ekran responsive değil scroll etmek gerekiyor falan baya yordu para çekmek yerine acı çektim resmen 😂 bilginize @Akbank

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

this is huge if it really works imo

[Computer @AskPerplexity]

Perplexity Computer replaced $225K/yr in marketing tools in a single weekend.

We built an AI marketing agent that scans hourly, manages budgets, detects fatigue, and coordinates several campaigns end to end.

In one test run, it made 224 micro-optimizations to our ad stack.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

this is how I feel installing new skills in Claude

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

@claudeai Love from Istanbul 💙

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

Anyone who watched Silicon Valley just pictured that scene

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

Wow! 😲

[The Dor Brothers @thedorbrothers]

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day.

Yes, this is 100% AI.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

@vivoplt It depends on the situation, but PostgreSQL fits most use cases.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

mentioned hobby project is https://t.co/KdXvrmwV6t btw

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

If you’re using @Cloudflare , you may want to know this: there’s no spend-based budget alert (spending alert). I learned that the hard way today, with a surprise $665 bill.

What’s more, I genuinely enjoy using the Cloudflare ecosystem. I’m on the Pro plan and actively use many products, including Pages / Workers / D1 / R2 / Durable Objects and more. That’s why this experience is even more disappointing.

On GCP / AWS / Firebase, the standard for years has been: “Alert me at $X” and “Stop / cap / throttle at $Y” budget guardrails. For small teams and indie projects, this isn’t “optional”... it’s a basic safety layer.

On Cloudflare, cost control largely depends on tracking metrics. In practice, that means the risk is pushed onto the user rather than the platform. If something goes wrong in production, the chance of “bill shock” rises unnecessarily.

This isn’t the first time: I previously had a similar surprise around $200 and paid it. But today’s $665 is no longer “within margin of error”, especially for a hobby/indie project, it’s not sustainable.

@CloudflareDev please add spending-based budgets & alerts:

“Notify me at $X” “At $Y, stop / degrade / switch to read-only mode”

This isn’t a nice-to-have; it’s a fundamental seatbelt.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

Also, I’m requesting that this bill be reviewed and, if possible, help with support/remediation. I don’t want to leave @Cloudflare, but without these guardrails the risk is too high for small teams.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

24 hours just isn’t enough when you’re excited about what you’re building.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

@HappyGezim It took ~5 minutes (including DNS)

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

Canceled pro plan and migrated to CF Workers

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇷

Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead.

We spoke about AI empowering everyone to build software and the importance of ensuring it serves quality and progress.

Optimistic for peace, safety, and greatness for Israel and its neighbors.

[Mert Guvencli @mertguvencli]

@tomerdean my decision to leave vercel wasn’t about the Jewish people or Israel as a whole. it was about one founder choosing to celebrate a photo-op with netanyahu right as war crime allegations are front and center. that’s what i can't support.