Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

Code that works perfectly locally (on macOS) goes silent the moment it is deployed to a production Docker container. This is a common sight in solo development. This time, I fell into this classic ...

I ditched my terminal for Claude's built-in code executor, and I'm not going back.

A viral cartoon about open-source software shows a teetering pile of boxes labelled “all modern digital infrastructure” and one tiny box right at the bottom, propping up the whole lot: “a project some ...

Enjoys fixing messy problems with clean code, good questions and the occasional AI assist. We’ve spent the last two years worrying about AI hallucinating bugs or stealing our jobs. We didn't spend ...

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An AI agent wrote a hit piece on an open-source developer after he rejected its code. The agent is still running on GitHub, no one has claimed responsibility, and the targeted developer warns that the ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

Following additional review, Ars has determined that the story “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name,” did not meet our standards. Ars Technica has ...

After a volunteer developer rejected its code, an autonomous AI agent independently researched his background and published a hit piece attacking his character. The incident at Matplotlib shows how ...

Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a ...