Entries for May 2025

  2. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    @onusoz · /2025/05/31· View on
    SCP-3434: Istanbul Taxi Superorganism
  3. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    Onur Solmaz · Log · /2025/05/31

    SCP-3434: Istanbul Taxi Superorganism

    Item #: SCP-3434

    Object Class: Euclid

    Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3434 cannot be fully contained due to its diffuse nature and integration into civilian infrastructure. Foundation agents embedded within Istanbul’s Transportation Coordination Center (UKOME) are to monitor taxi activity patterns for anomalous behavior spikes. Mobile Task Force ████ has been assigned to investigate and neutralize extreme manifestations within SCP-3434.

    Individuals exhibiting temporal disorientation after utilizing taxi services in Istanbul should be administered Class-B amnestics and monitored for 72 hours post-incident. Under no circumstances should Foundation personnel utilize SCP-3434 instances for transportation unless authorized for testing purposes.

    Description: SCP-3434 is a defensive superorganism manifesting as a collective consciousness within approximately 17,000 taxi vehicles operating in Istanbul, Turkey. Individual taxis display coordinated behaviors atypical for independently operated vehicles, functioning as a distributed neural network despite lacking any detectable communication infrastructure.

    SCP-3434 exhibits three primary anomalous properties:

    1. Temporal Distortion: Passengers experience significant time dilation upon entering affected vehicles. Discrepancies between perceived and actual elapsed time range from minutes to several hours, with no correlation to distance traveled or traffic conditions. GPS data from affected rides consistently shows corruption or retroactive alteration.

    2. Economic Predation: The collective demonstrates uncanny ability to extract maximum possible fare from each passenger through coordinated deception, including meter “malfunctions,” route manipulation, and inexplicable knowledge of passenger financial status. Credit card readers experience a ████ failure rate exclusively for non-local passengers.

    3. Territorial Defense: SCP-3434 displays extreme hostility toward competing transportation services. Since 2011, all attempts by ridesharing platforms to establish operations have failed due to coordinated interference including simultaneous vehicle failures, GPS anomalies affecting only competitor vehicles, and physical blockades formed with millisecond precision.

    Incident Log 3434-A: On 14/09/2024, Agent ████ ████ was assigned to investigate temporal anomalies reported in the Beyoğlu district. Agent ████ entered taxi license plate 34 T ████ at 14:22 local time for what GPS tracking indicated would be a 12-minute journey to Taksim Square.

    Agent ████ emerged at 14:34 local time at the intended destination. However, biological markers and personal chronometer readings indicated Agent ████ had experienced approximately 8 months of subjective time. Physical examination confirmed accelerated aging consistent with temporal displacement. Agent exhibited severe psychological distress and no memory of the elapsed period.

    The taxi driver, when questioned, displayed no anomalous knowledge and insisted the journey had taken “only 15 minutes, very fast, no traffic.” The meter showed a fare of ████, approximately 40 times the standard rate. Driver claimed this was “normal price, weekend rates.”

    Post-incident analysis of the taxi revealed no anomalous materials or modifications. The vehicle continues to operate within the SCP-3434 network without further documented incidents.

    Interview Log:

    Interviewed: ███████ (Driver of taxi license plate 34 T ████)

    Dr. ████: How long have you been driving this route?

    ███████: Route? What route? The city tells us where to go.

    Dr. ████: The city?

    ███████: You wouldn’t understand. You’re not connected. But we all hear it. Every corner, every passenger, every lira. We are Istanbul, and Istanbul is us.

    Dr. ████: Can you elaborate on-

    ███████: Your hotel is 20 minutes away. It will take us an hour. The meter is broken. Only cash.

    Addendum 3434-1: Research into historical records reveals references to unusual taxi behavior in Istanbul dating back to 1942, coinciding with the introduction of the first motorized taxi services. The phenomenon appears to have evolved in complexity with the city’s growth.

    Addendum 3434-2: Foundation economists estimate SCP-3434’s collective annual revenue exceeds ████ million Turkish Lira, with 0% reported to tax authorities. Attempts to audit individual drivers result in temporary disappearance of all documentation and the spontaneous malfunction of all electronic devices within a 10-meter radius.

    Note from Site Director: “Under no circumstances should personnel attempt to ‘outsmart’ SCP-3434 by pretending to be locals. They already know. They always know.”

    I am on vacation, so here is a little bit of fun with some grounded fiction.

  5. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    @onusoz · /2025/05/29· View on
    Headless makes running these things in a sandbox much easier. Sandbox means you can give all permissions and just let it run until completion. See my efforts to do so here: https://t.co/9UUFOTwk2A
  6. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    @onusoz · /2025/05/29· View on
    I was trying to figure out why @AnthropicAI Claude Code feels better than @cursor_ai with Opus + Max mode. I can’t put my finger onto it, but one of the reasons might be that it’s faster, because it doesn’t use another model to apply the diffs, which you have to wait for
  10. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    @onusoz · /2025/05/25· View on
    I've been using Claude Code extensively since last week What I'm wondering is, since you can run Claude Code locally, why isn't there any tooling to let you run it in a sandboxed mode in local Docker containers yet? Or did I miss it? cc @AnthropicAI
  11. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    @onusoz · /2025/05/25· View on
    Generate documentation for your merged PRs automatically with Claude Code: https://t.co/yLy0Us6noy
  12. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    Onur Solmaz · Log · /2025/05/24

    Auto-generating pull request documentation with Claude Code and GitHub Actions

    Anthropic has just released a GitHub Action for integrating Claude Code into your GitHub repo. This lets you do very cool things, like automatically generating documentation for your pull requests after you merge them. Skip to the next section to learn how to install it in your repo.

    Since Claude Code is envisioned to be a basic Unix utility, albeit a very smart one, it is very easy to use it in GitHub Actions. The action is very simple:

    • It runs after a pull request is merged.
    • It uses Claude Code to generate a documentation for the pull request.
    • It creates a new pull request with the documentation.

    This is super useful, because it saves context about the repo into the repo itself. The documentation generated this way is very useful for not only humans, but also for AI agents. A future AI can then learn about what was done in a certain PR, without looking at Git history, issues or PRs. In other words, it lets you automatically break GitHub’s walled garden, using GitHub’s native features 1.

    Installation

    1. Save your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY as a secret in the repo you want to install this action. You can find this page in https://github.com/<your-username-or-org-name>/<your-repo-name>/settings/secrets. If you have already installed Claude Code in your repo by running /install-github-app in Claude Code, you can skip this step.
    2. Save the following as .github/workflows/claude-code-pr-autodoc.yml in your repo:
    name: Auto-generate PR Documentation

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [closed]
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  generate-documentation:
    # Only run when PR is merged and not created by bots
    # This prevents infinite loops and saves compute resources
    if: |
      github.event.pull_request.merged == true &&
      github.event.pull_request.user.type != 'Bot' &&
      !startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title, 'docs: Add documentation for PR')
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
      pull-requests: write
      id-token: write

    steps:
      - uses: textcortex/claude-code-pr-autodoc-action@v1
        with:
          anthropic_api_key: $

    There are bunch of parameters you can configure, like minimum number of diff lines that will trigger the action, or the directory where the documentation will be saved. To learn about how to configure these parameters, visit the GitHub Action repo itself: textcortex/claude-code-pr-autodoc-action.

    Usage

    After you merge a PR, the action will automatically generate documentation for it and open a new PR with the documentation. You can then simply merge this PR, and the documentation will be added to the repo, by default in the docs/prs directory.

    Thoughts on Claude Code

    I was curious why Anthropic had not released an agentic coding app on Claude.ai, and this might be the reason why.

    The main Claude Code action is not limited to creating PR documentation. You tag @claude, in any comment, and Claude Code will answer questions or implement the changes you ask for.

    While OpenAI and Google is busy creating sloppy chat UXs for agentic coding (Codex and Jules) and forcing developers to work on their site, Anthropic is taking Claude directly to the developers’ feet and integrate Claude Code into GitHub.

    Ask any question in a GitHub PR, and Claude Code will answer your questions, implement requested changes, fix bugs, typos, styling issues.

    You don’t need to go to code Codex or Jules website to follow up on your task. Why should you? Developer UX is already “solved” (well yes but no).

    Anthropic bets on GitHub, what already works. That’s why they have probably already won developers.

    The only problem is that it costs a little bit too much for now.

    In the long run, I am not sure if GitHub will be enough for following up async agentic coding tasks in parallel. Anthropic might soon launch their own agentic coding app. GitHub itself might evolve and create a better real-time chat UX. But unless that UX really blows my mind, I will most likely just hang out at GitHub. If you are an insider, or you know what Anthropic is planning to do, please let us know in the HN comment section.

    claude-code-pr-autodoc-action was developed by me, 80% using Claude Code and 20% using Cursor with Claude Opus 4.

    1. File over app by Steph Ango. ↩

  15. Portrait of Onur Solmaz
    @onusoz · /2025/05/20· View on
    The more I compare coding agents, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, it becomes more apparent to me that those running locally will win over those that are running remote. The UX is just superior