Note
This is not the classical post about running claude in YOLO mode and
then complaining that it damaged the system. I have reasons to think that
claude automatically modified my .bashrc to remove a line
alias claude=... without asking my permission and without notifying me
of the change.
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.
Originally published on the HPy blog.
HPy 0.0.2 is out! This is the first version which is officially released and made available on PyPI.
The major highlight of this release is that it is supported by three different Python implementations: CPython, PyPy and GraalPython.
Originally published on the HPy blog.
Yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk about HPy (sildes) at the Python Language Summit 2021.
The organizers of the summit will soon publish a full report about the event (edit: now available here), but for the HPy-specific part, we got generally good feedback. Someone has a few concerns that if CPython is to change the API, HPy might not be going far enough. Others said that Python shouldn't wait for the "perfect" API if HPy can be the "good" one that helps it evolve.
Everyone was open to have HPy-compatible wheels on PyPI, once the HPy Universal ABI stays relatively stable. Many people suggested that we should really write a PEP to propose HPy as a "semi-official" API for Python.
Originally published on the HPy blog.
HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real-life meetings. Since then, HPy progressed a lot from the point of view of the actual code, but we have been a bit too silent w.r.t. communicating what we are doing to the external world and to the broader Python community. Hopefully, now that this blog is online we will do a better job at periodically communicating the status of HPy, so make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.
Originally published on the PyPy blog.
Recently Antonio, Armin and Ronan had a small internal sprint in the beautiful city of Gdańsk to kick-off the development of HPy. Here is a brief report of what was accomplished during the sprint.
Originally published on the PyPy blog.