You might have noticed I'm not happy with the Python packaging ecosystem. But the language itself is no longer fun for me to code in either. It is especially not fun to maintain projects in. Elementary quality-of-life features get bogged down in months of discussions and design-by-committee. At the same time, there's a new release every year, full of removed and deprecated features. A lot of churn, without much benefit. I just don't feel like doing it anymore.
Anthropic has released version 2.1.0 of Claude Code. It is a substantial update to its development environment for vibe coding. With Claude Code, the company focuses on autonomous software development, controlling AI agents, and performing various computer tasks from the terminal. Boris Cherny, responsible for Claude Code, reports to VentureBeat that the new release includes more than a thousand separate changes.
The company has now extended its developer tools to be coalesced inside the new Spotify Portal. This is an Internal Developer Platform built by Spotify's Backstage team. In the age of platform engineering, when IDPs hold the promise of self-service computing for developers who want to elevate themselves above the distraction of working with operations to get their infrastructure provisioning handled in an abstracted and automated way, does this technology rock the house?
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One of the really interesting findings was the median date when developers started using AI tools. They found it was April 2024, which corresponds fairly neatly to Claude 3 coming out and Gemini 2.5 coming out. This is really the dawn of the reasoning or thinking models, and around that same time, we got much better at tool-calling. For coding tasks, you really need to be able to leverage external information in order to problem solve,
When I started off learning Rust, I was reading the Rust book, the official book, and it really resonated with me when they started speaking about option types, and result types, algebraic data types, and all those things. It occurred to me at that time, or it was the first time it clicked, that you could move this burden of discipline from yourself to the language.
