Pallets now documents our LLM and AI tool use policy, explaining why we value human contributions rather than trying to instruct the tools. I don't think this will make a difference to the amount of generated junk we get, but I hope people who care find value in it. https://palletsprojects.com/contributing/llm-ai #Python #Flask #OpenSource

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The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")

There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.

EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.

#NoAI #NoLLM

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Build Your Own Roguelike Game in Python — Even the D&D Combat Basics! #Python

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Learn Python the Fun Way — Build Retro RPGs! #Python

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Every Python dev has faced APIs that use camelCase or kebab-case while your codebase follows snake_case.

The typical approach creates technical debt: either break Python naming conventions or write complex mapping logic that clutters your codebase.

Pydantic's Field alias feature elegantly solves this: define external field names through aliases while keeping internal code perfectly Pythonic.

Integration compatibility and clean code that's maintainable. 💚

#Python #Pydantic

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And some good insight on #python's loss of conviviality: «Due to a combination of growing ecosystem complexity, growing corporate influence on development decisions, and the rise of a breaking-change version of Python (Python 3), the scientific Python ecosystem flipped from a stable infrastructure for research projects to an unstable software layer whose frequent breaking changes required researchers to invest more and more time just to keep their code in a usable state. Conviviality was lost.»

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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 490 - Week Ending July 3, 2026

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LLM Quantization: From the Bits Up by Hatem M. is a new release on Leanpub!

Anyone can run INT4 and read off the accuracy drop. This book explains why that number is what it is — building every quantization method from scratch, breaking it on purpose, and measuring the result. Quantization, from the bits up.

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#books #ebooks #newreleases #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ai #machine_learning #ai_programming_with_python #python

Big news for the #Python packaging world: The inaugural Python Packaging Council election is coming up soon! The council will be the technical decision-making body for Python packaging specs, coordinating across tools, teams, and the wider community. Learn more on the PSF blog:
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/06/packaging-council-inaugural-election.html

“Python will be happy with it, but other programmers will probably find it pretty confusing.”

Read more 👉 https://pym.dev/unnecessary-parentheses/

#Python

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Reminder: The PSF's Strategic Plan full draft is available and we want your feedback! Check out the full draft and tell us: Are these the right goals? Is anything missing?

The feedback window closes in a couple of days on June 25, 2026, AoE.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/06/psf-strategic-plan-2026-draft-open-for.html

#Python #PyPI

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