Major Hayden 🤠No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/
https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/
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Alyssa Coghlan
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CPython core developer, Python deployment engineer @ LM Studio, cognitive science dabbler, secular humanist, charitably mercenary cynical idealist :)
GlyphHowever, the fact that (even in the face of shortfall) the PSF is taking pretty big chunks of money from corporate donors and routing it to lots of different deserving projects that are working hard to improve the global Python community, even in the face of *significant* geopolitical headwinds, is ultimately a success story.
Let's go out and get some more donors to continue funding it, so that the challenges we are facing don't stop everyone from continuing to do this important work.
BeeWare ProjectDid you know: You can build iOS and Android Python wheels with cibuildwheel, and upload them to PyPI? You can! But not many projects have.
Want to know if your popular package offers iOS or Android support? Here's a leaderboard. Want a great way to contribute? Submit a PR adding iOS and Android support to your favourite package.
Danielle ForéThis has been said a million times a million different ways but it’s worth repeating: the goal of a good developer isn’t to write code that compiles and tests that pass. The goal of a good developer is to solve a problem and hopefully in the process write code that can be understood by the next person maintaining it 10 years from now. The challenge is not in creation itself, it is in decided what to create and how and why
Kushal Das 
Dear #Python #community please read this important #blog post https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-psf-has-paused-our-grants-program.html related to #grants from @ThePSF
Python Software Foundation🗳️ Nominations for the 2025 PSF Board election are open!
Help shape the future of the PSF — nominate yourself or someone you think would be a great PSF Board Director by Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/07/psf-board-nominations-opening-july-29th.html
Itamar Turner-TrauringGoogle Workspace now defaults to expensive plans ($20/month) instead of cheaper plans ($7/month) with promise of better AI or something. Downgrading is _really really_ hard, I had to dig super far into the UI. I was able to do it, but I suspect vast majority of people will just fail.
So basically "AI revenue" is just Google applying dark patterns to new customers.
Sure glad the random product manager who designed this is meeting their OKRs!
One side effect of using GitHub for work these days is that I actually vaguely try to keep on top of my GH notification list (this did require an initial declaration of notification bankruptcy a while back, though).
Mentions on closed or merged issues & PRs also generally just get marked as done without looking at them.
Kat Marchán 🐈Told y'all we were cooking.
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We're a collective designing and building the software needed for folks who aren't techies to basically self host without feeling like they're self-hosting. Because you shouldn't need to be a sysadmin to free yourself from this yoke.
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ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋAny technical solution that is supposed to block teenagers from anything is not going to work very well, because you are facing an opponent that:
* is smarter than you,
* is very dedicated,
* has a lot of free time,
* has an extensive network of friends,
* faces no serious consequences if caught,
* outnumbers you,
* considers you an immoral crook.
You really, *really* want to have them on your side. That means education rather than control.