Mastodawn

The AI hype-cyclone is bad, but so is the anti-AI witch hunt. Commits co-authored by Claude do not mean that a project has "abandoned engineering as a serious endeavor"

Would we say that accepting contributions from new developers means we've "abandoned engineering as a serious endeavor"? No.

Claude can write wrong code. New contributors can write wrong code. What matters is what you do with that code after it's been written.

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Miguel Grinberg

@nedbat Do you know why did these CPython core developers start using Claude Code? Aside from it being a good or bad idea, I think it would be useful to know the why.

Is it to save time? Or maybe to get through work that they find boring? Or perhaps Anthropic just gave free subscriptions to the core team as part of their donation? What is it?

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Miguel Grinberg Feb 26

@nedbat Knowing the reasons might help me understand and feel less disappointed. The optics without any context are bad, because I would imagine there's lots of people who would be willing to contribute to CPython if given the chance and if this trend continues they'll have less opportunities to do so.