Portrait of Onur Solmaz

Hey, it's Onur.

Maintainer @OpenClaw, founding engineer @TextCortex.

I write about building agents, software systems, and the things I learn while shipping them.

2026-03-04 GitHub needs first-class support for working with agents
2026-03-03 Intelligence wants to be free
2026-03-01 Use plans to survive agent context compaction
2026-03-01 Building a static X to blog publishing flow
2026-03-01 Inference scaling can reduce coding model quality
2026-02-28 Archiving my X posts in my own blog
2026-02-28 Agentic Engineering needs rigor, not just intuition
2026-02-25 MIT licensing as the default for open source
2026-02-23 AI filmmaking quality beyond ragebait content
2026-02-23 Post-GPL philosophy for open source
2026-02-19 Family intelligence and privately owned heirloom AI
2026-02-19 AI psychosis, self-regulation, and sterile agent design
2026-02-15 We need a protocol for agent-to-app interaction
2026-02-14 SaaS must adapt to agent consumption or get replaced
2026-02-13 I built a coding agent two months before ChatGPT existed
2026-02-07 The Linux FUD playbook is repeating for AI
2026-02-06 Family AI starts with owned context and values
2026-02-03 Limits of the farming analogy for AI
2026-02-03 Local LLM demand will rise as subscriptions compound
2026-02-03 The farming analogy for AI doesn't hold up
2026-02-02 Agent etiquette is becoming an organizational necessity
2026-02-01 AI psychosis and AI hygiene
2026-01-24 Python limitations in the agent era
2026-01-22 Responsible engineering in agent workflows
2026-01-21 Agents as enforcers of engineering culture and process
2026-01-17 GitHub's trust model breaks under AI-generated code
2026-01-17 Stop defaulting to weak coding agents for serious work
2026-01-17 GitHub has to change
2026-01-12 A --skill convention for distributing agent capabilities
2026-01-11 You don't need a skill registry (for your CLI tools)
2026-01-10 Anthropic pricing discourages agent-native development
2026-01-10 Anthropic's pricing is stupid
2026-01-04 Having a "tools" repo as a developer
2026-01-03 Christmas of Agents
2025-12-31 GPT-5.2 xhigh feels like a careful systems debugger
2025-12-27 Agent progress is compounding faster than teams realize
2025-12-26 Depth on Demand
2025-12-22 How to stop AI agents from littering your codebase with Markdown files
2025-12-14 Language-agnostic interoperability layer for LLM APIs
2025-12-06 Agentic coding tools should give more control over message queueing
2025-10-13 Vibecoding this blog
2025-09-29 Google's Code Review Guidelines (GitHub Adaptation)
2025-09-08 CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md Migration Guide
2025-08-03 Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
2025-07-13 Workaround for Claude Code running `python` instead of `uv`
2025-07-05 Day 47 of Claude Code god mode
2025-06-04 Predictions by Anthropic Researchers
2025-05-31 SCP-3434: Istanbul Taxi Superorganism
2025-05-24 Auto-generating pull request documentation with Claude Code and GitHub Actions
2025-04-26 Working on the weekend
2025-02-26 Don't delete to fix
2025-02-21 Warmup and cooldown
2025-02-20 Satya Nadella on knowledge work
2025-01-26 Monetize AI, not the editor
2025-01-18 Calling strangers uncle and auntie
2024-12-29 AGI is what generates evolutionarily fit and novel information
2024-12-16 Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
2024-11-02 The Kilowatt Human
2024-09-22 Python may overtake JavaScript in an AI-first workflow
2024-09-14 Open Thought > Closed Thought
2024-08-28 A failure scenario for AI infrastructure under scale
2024-08-18 Why should anyone boot *you* up?
2024-07-06 Frequencies of Definite Articles in Written vs Spoken German
2024-05-18 Stripe Subscription States
2024-05-04 Economic Burden of Language Complexity
2023-06-17 Cognitive Biases Ranked by Popularity
2023-05-11 Code-Driven Videos
2022-10-18 Microtonal Piano
2020-04-26 Take Control of Your Feeds
2019-10-21 Blockchain Fee Volatility
2019-04-20 Equilibrium in Cryptoeconomic Networks
2019-02-24 Scalable Reward Distribution with Changing Stake Sizes
2019-02-09 Bitcoin's Inflation
2018-10-18 The Anatomy of a Block Stuffing Attack
2018-08-03 Mathematics of Bonding Curves
2018-04-24 Lumped L2 Projection
2018-04-13 Disadvantages of Engineering Notation in Finite Elements
2018-04-01 Variational Formulation of Elasticity
2018-01-24 Discontinuous Divergence Theorem
2017-12-22 Nonlinear Finite Elements
2017-12-12 Coupled Finite Elements
2017-12-07 Time-Dependent Finite Elements
2017-11-21 Vectorial Finite Elements
2017-11-20 Reshaping Higher Order Linear Systems
2017-11-14 Linear Finite Elements
2017-10-12 Balance Laws
2017-09-20 Taylor and Volterra Series
2017-07-22 Isomorphisms in Linear Mappings between Vector Spaces
2017-07-13 Metrics and Natural Isomorphisms
2017-07-06 Duality of Vector Spaces
2016-04-20 Solving Constrained Linear Systems
2014-11-17 Simple recursive implementation of deCasteljau's algorithm for Bezier curves in Python