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Три агента, один репозиторий, ноль менеджеров. Как я построил конвейер, где ИИ пишет, ревьюит и деплоит код

Месяц назад я закинул задачу на рефакторинг модуля авторизации и пошёл варить кофе. Кофе я допить не успел. Через двадцать минут пришло уведомление в ТГ: «staging обновлён, 94 теста пройдено, 0 упало». Открыл репозиторий. Ветка, diff на два экрана. Code review от второго агента. Три замечания, два по делу. Третий агент прогнал тесты и задеплоил. Код был чище, чем я обычно пишу по пятницам. Но до этого момента были три месяца граблей, упавший продакшен, и одна ночь, когда агенты сделали десятки бесполезных коммитов. Обо всём по порядку.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/995430/

#LLM #AI_agents #python #code_review #автоматизация #docker #redis #claude #refactoring #AI

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I will be streaming on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ in a bit over 17 hours (10AM US/Pacific on Tuesday), writing some #Python code in #Emacs. If that is interesting to you feel free to stop by, and don't worry about derailing anything; I'll probably be working on Pomodouroboros again but happy to chat about whatever!

oof here's a cursed question:

how does one make a #python dataclass with a subclass that changes *only* the default values of its fields, without adding new ones? is that doable?

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The Python Security Response Team membership is now public with a documented nomination process 🥳

https://devguide.python.org/developer-workflow/psrt/

#security #opensource #oss #python

Can any #python folks develop an opinion about https://github.com/glyph/Fritter/pull/10 ? I don't need a full code review but it would be really useful to have thoughts about whether it's clear when this would be useful, if it would in fact be useful, or if "discrete" is both a correct and useful shorthand for what it's doing.

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How many #Python conferences are coming up in 2026? SO MANY:
https://pythondeadlin.es/

I don’t know if there’s anything the #python community can actually do to make python less appealing to malware developers—maybe it’s just easier to develop software with, and malware is software—but we should be reckoning with the fact that it *is* popular for that https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/02/infostealers-without-borders-macos-python-stealers-and-platform-abuse/

I wrote about the first big investigation PR I did for Werkzeug, back in 2018. Now that we support Python 3.10+, I can replace it with one simple line of code. Here's how to detect if `python` was run with the `-m` option: https://davidism.com/python-args/ #Python

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@ianbetteridge

Taking the 'and' to be a logical operator, obviously 'No.' anded with anything is still 'No.'.

Except in #Python, of course.

(-:

#ComputerProgramming #logic #QuestionHeadlines

I just learned about unicode categories [1], a categorization of each character.
In #python you can find it out for each character using `unicodedata.category(char)`

>>> unicodedata.category(c).startswith('P')
means it is a _P_unctuation character.

>>> unicodedata.category('.')
'Po' # Other_Punctuation
>>> unicodedata.category('_')
'Pc' # Connector_Punctuation

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/tr44-34.html#General_Category_Values
#til

#Pomodouroboros is a pomodoro timer for people with #ADHD (or anyone else with executive functioning challenges), #OpenSource and written in #Python. There's a working version for macOS today and you can download it if you like, but it's more of a prototype than a finished product (although I do use it daily, and you can try it) and has been somewhat stuck in that space for a frustratingly long time. This week was a big step towards getting out of that local maximum. https://github.com/glyph/pomodouroboros

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I think #Python packaging drives most people insane because they implicitly think "packaging" and "deployment" are the same thing.

Python packaging is a process for producing an intermediary artifact that can be consumed by Python programmers and organized according to community rules.

Python *deployment* does not really exist. You deploy to a platform, not a programming language. Which is double-maddening: Linux, the place where most people think they want to deploy, *also* isn't a platform.

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