Daniel Ivanov
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  • 2026-05-164 min read

    Recorded my daughter's recital — by Saturday night, a working pipeline came out

    Shot it on iPhone as a parent. By Saturday evening — 33 individual portfolio clips for every performer, ready to share with families. Between those two points: 30 hours, five attempts at AI segmentation, and two whisper-cpp bugs.

  • 2026-05-034 min read

    Fine-tuning, RAG, and reasoning aren't alternatives — they're stack layers

    Someone asked why my approach beats RAG and reasoning. It doesn't — it lives underneath them. Where each layer works and where each breaks.

  • 2026-05-033 min read

    655 questions in one evening. A benchmark for my own model.

    Built LII-Sport-Bench-RU v0.1 — 655 expert questions across 35 sports. Eleven AI agents in parallel. Methodology, not magic.

  • 2026-05-013 min read

    It's not a camera

    Spent today sketching out a product that doesn't exist yet. By evening it was clear: it's not a camera. It's an AI system where the hard part runs on the phone — and I'm giving that part away free.

  • 2026-04-225 min read

    Launched an LLM integration service — starting with education

    Published the product page for an LLM integration service for Russian organizations. 60-90 days to pilot. Starting with education, then healthcare, then law.

  • 2026-04-222 min read

    Fine-tuned a model to GPT-5.4 quality for $330

    $330, 16 hours on an H200, #9 of 30 on EduBench-RU. The 32B version I trained in parallel cost 3× the GPU and scored worse.

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Daniel Ivanov · csylabsПолитика обработки ПДн© 2026