Enjoys fixing messy problems with clean code, good questions and the occasional AI assist. Enjoys fixing messy problems with clean code, good questions and the occasional AI assist. Enjoys fixing ...

What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

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 ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...

Matplotlib is a feature-rich module for producing a wide array of graphs, plots, charts, images, and animations. Since Matplotlib is not part of the Python core libraries (like the math and csv ...

Now that we’ve seen how to read data from a file, and how to generate some descriptive statistics for the data, it makes sense that we should address visual presentation of data. For this we will use ...

I have been using Pip package manager to install and manage Python packages inside the isolated python virtual environments in my Debian Linux 11. After upgrading Debian 11 to Debian 12, the Pip ...

In a clean virtualenv, on a M1 macbook with Python 3.11, pip install healpy the healpy-1.16.3-cp311-cp311-macosx_12_0_arm64.whl wheel does not seem to work: (note - see my comment below) python3.11 -m ...