Ulas Can Cengiz

Serial Entrepreneur, CTO, Investor

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

"Works on my machine!"
We used to hear that as a defensive argument.

But guess what?

It’s a feature now.

My local AI agent is currently running for the 1638th time by itself, analyzing my life, as sensitive as it gets, without being connected to the internet.

No cloud dashboard.

No API meter spinning in the background.

No random third-party service casually knowing what I ate, forgot, postponed, avoided, planned, regretted, or promised myself I would finally fix on Monday.

Just my machine. Doing the work.

And yes, before someone imagines a basement full of GPUs, blinking lights, and a suspicious electricity bill: I do not have a huge server stack in my house.

That is the point.

It is now perfectly possible for a business to run useful local AI agents.

Private workflows.
Internal documents.
Business impact.
Company knowledge.
Operational decisions.
Automation.
Sensitive analysis.

All without sending everything to the internet first and calling it "innovation".

The old excuse became the new architecture.

Works on my machine.

Exactly.

Let me know if you need one.

#LocalAI

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

TWO MEN just ran a marathon under 2 hours today.

Yes. Read that again.

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[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

I was building my own tools to manage multiple projects at the same time with codex.

Looks like I don’t have to do that anymore.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing GPT-5.5

A new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry more tasks through to completion. It marks a new way of getting computer work done.

Now available in ChatGPT and Codex.

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

Your GPU’s TOPS can’t feed the model.

Local inference is memory-bound. Every token = reading the entire model from VRAM. Compute finishes in microseconds, then waits.

Bandwidth sells tok/sec. TOPS sells spec sheets.

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

He first won the hardware game using supply chain, then won the AI game using hardware.

Incredible, @tim_cook, you inspired us all.

[Variety @Variety]

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple’s CEO after 15 years. John Ternus, senior VP of hardware engineering, will replace him.

“It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company. I love Apple with all of my being, and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with a team of such ingenious, innovative, creative, and deeply caring people who have been unwavering in their dedication to enriching the lives of our customers and creating the best products and services in the world,” Cook said in a statement.

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[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

day 10 of building governor. added a deterministic rule cache for the rule engine. repeated scans on unchanged files skip re-evaluation entirely. pre-commit hooks just got faster.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor clear --cache wipes the rule cache. --no-cache disables it for a single run. cache-dir, cache-max-bytes, and cache-ttl are all configurable via flags or .governor/config.yaml. defaults are 256MB and 14 days.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor audit now shows cache stats in the summary. hits, misses, writes, evictions, hit rate. you can see exactly how much work the cache saved you on each run.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor now caches rule-engine results. if a file hasn't changed and the check definition hasn't changed, it skips re-evaluation and returns cached findings. second scan on the same codebase is noticeably faster. enabled by default, no setup needed.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

day 9 of building governor. added stack profiles, custom profile overrides, and smarter quickstart onboarding. governor now knows what framework you're using and adjusts accordingly.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor quickstart got smarter. it now detects your framework, suggests a check profile, and offers to install the recommended check packs right there in the wizard. by the time it runs your first audit, the checks are already tailored to your stack.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor ships with 11 built-in stack profiles but you can override them. drop a check-profiles.yaml in your .governor directory and define which checks your team should run. repo-local overrides, global overrides, or pass a file with --profile-file.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

added stack profiles to governor. it detects your framework and recommends the checks. Next.js app gets checked for things like exposed env vars in client bundles. an Express app gets rate limiting and helmet header checks. no manual configuration needed.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

day 8 of building governor. added governor fix, reachability metadata, and configurable risk gates. audit results are getting a lot more actionable.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

you can now tell governor to only block on findings that are actually exploitable. --fail-on-exploitability, --max-new-reachable, --require-attack-path-for-blocking. no more CI failures over theoretical issues that nobody can reach.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor findings now track attack paths, entry points, and exploitability ratings. each finding tells you whether it's a confirmed path, reachable, or just theoretical. makes it way easier to know what to fix first.

https://t.co/ScFrpipYkR

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

new command: governor fix. point it at an audit report and it generates concrete fix suggestions per finding - which files, what to change, validation steps. closes the loop from "you have a problem" to "here's how to solve it."

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

`governor quickstart` walks you through the full setup in 30 seconds.

day 7 of building governor. zero-config audit, colorized output, project detection, quickstart wizard. all shipped today.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

@claudeai Welcome back.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj

[Ulas Can Cengiz @ulsc]

governor now auto-detects what kind of project it's scanning. Express, Next.js, FastAPI, Django, Go, Rust - 11 frameworks total. shows up in the audit output as `detected: Express` and in the quickstart wizard. groundwork for framework-specific checks.

https://t.co/ScFrpipqvj