Quentin Pradet

@quentin.pradet.me

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I like maintaining things: the Elasticsearch Python clients by day, urllib3 and trustme by night. I write about #Python, HTTP, async/await, open source and performance! he/him

Bluey screenshot where Bandit swings Bingo. The swing is hung on a tree.

A box of Petit écolier biscuits, as sold in France.

Two Bluesky posts. Below antirez’s post, the Rust language announces it presence on Bluesky. The Rust post was boosted 96 times and liked 279 times.

The only tool costing above $20/month is Augment Code, which charges $60/month, per developer. Assuming there’s a productivity boost from using this tool, even this lofty price tag would be a bargain.

As such, these prices feel heavily subsidized by vendors, who may be offering capabilities at a loss. Giving away GenAI functionality for free or at a low price, means vendors must fund the infrastructure powering these models from sources other than revenue.

There is a reasonable expectation that over time, the cost of generating tokens will decrease. However, right now, any engineer making heavy usage of code generation is likely getting good value for money, in terms of the compute required for code generation on larger codebases.

$ uv run --python 3.13t python
Using CPython 3.13.0
Creating virtual environment at: .venv
Installed 4 packages in 16ms
Python 3.13.0 experimental free-threading build (main, Oct 16 2024, 08:24:33) [Clang 18.1.8 ] on darwin
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