2026-09-26 21:37 UTC
I'd like to ask CPython, today, to stop incorporating slop. This discussion would likely go nowhere. I cannot imagine a way to have it productively.
But there's a future (this *specific* one isn't likely) where, for example, NYT wins a devastating blow against Anthropic, something comes out in discovery about proprietary code as well as pirated books in the training set, somebody sues the PSF and then someone needs to review and potentially reauthor every commit from Python 3.14 to 3.19.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-09-26 21:39
Imagine the impact this would have on the community. Imagine trying to raise money required to re-litigate 5 years of work from a hundred contributors. Would Python continue to exist? Would we just have to immediately vaporize all progress made in the interim, start over at 3.14 and desperately fix 100 CVEs at once, carefully _not_ backporting all the fixes? Would every ecosystem package author need to join in to this all-hands-on-deck effort?