2026-09-26 21:35 UTC
I do still (perhaps irrationally) believe that we can potentially redeem the community and rehabilitate everyone currently acquiescing to the slop bots but the thing that I'm struggling to adjust to is that I don't think I will be alive to see it, and some of the setbacks along the way are going to be just excruciatingly devastating.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-09-26 21:37
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.