Yesterday I talked about SPy at PyCon Italy.
Thanks to Hugo van Kemenade for the picture.
Slides are available here.
The edited video is not available yet, but in the meantime it's possible to watch unedited version available inside the live stream at minute 05:44:05.
In the past weeks, I have been experimenting with using claude code to speed
up development, in particular of SPy.
My experience so far reveals a clear pattern: claude excels at simple,
one-shot tasks that follow existing patterns, producing commit-ready
code. However, for complex tasks requiring multiple iterations, quality
deteriorates significantly with each round, often necessitating complete
rewrites or extensive cleanup.
Because of this, I have been looking for ways to guide it towards making it only simple steps, and to wait for my confirmation before going further. So far, I failed.
The Python community is awesome.
It is full of great people and minds, and interacting with people at conferences is always nice and stimulating. But one of my favorite things is that over time, after many conferences, talks, pull requests and beers, the personal relationship with some of them strengthen and they become friends.
I am fortunate enough that two of them, Łukasz Langa and Hood Chatham, accepted my invitation to join me in Cervinia, at the border between Italian and Swiss Alps, for a week of hacking, winter sports and going literally over the clouds. This is a brief summary of what we did during our time together.