Paul Moore
pfmoore.bsky.social
Paul Moore
@pfmoore.bsky.social
Python core developer, pip maintainer, gamer (board and video), occasional guitarist
Multiple interpreters look like a nice abstraction. I'm looking forward to giving them a try.
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Personally I like multi threading. Free threading is a minor improvement for me - I have *one* use case for cpu-bound threads. What I'd like is better abstractions. No-one likes explicit locks.
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Paul Moore
The Board can do with experience, or with new blood. So many great candidates! Make your own choice!

Except DO NOT vote for Franz Király. Even ignoring his bad faith arguing and bad ideas, he's clearly not a team player and does not act in the Python community's best interests.
September 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Principle, mainly. LLMs are based on (potentially illegal) massive use of content that wasn't paid for. So charging for the results feels wrong, IMO. But also the hype misrepresents the situation by not being explicit that good results require payment and not addressing the ethics of that.
July 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
AI companies lost almost all chance of trust when they trained on data without ensuring that the author(s) of that data were OK with them doing so. That's not just "illegally use copyrighted material" but also "assume consent based on licenses written before AI training even existed as an idea".
July 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Regrettably, the (lack of) credibility of AI companies makes it hard to believe such claims...
July 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Wow, I didn't know that. So that's another reason I want transparency over costs. "Don't train on my interactions" is a non-negotiable baseline for anything non-trivial (*certainly* for code assistance) in my opinion.
July 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
And *my* comment was in the context of having only just discovered that a lot of the pro-LLM posts I'd been reading were referring to experiences with $200/month plans. I was pointing out that the "power tool" analogy feels like a bait-and-switch in a world of generally free dev tools.
July 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
To be clear, I have no problem with people posting about what paid LLMs can do. I just want it to be clear that's what they are talking about. I don't read posts on PyCharm (£200/year) - why should I be interested in posts on LLMs that cost ten times that???
July 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'll freely admit that my experience is solely with the free ChatGPT (and specifically the "stay logged out" version). I use exclusively free development tools, and I don't see why LLMs should be any different. And I don't want to deal with my interaction history becoming part of the context.
July 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What frustrates me most of all is that people praising LLMs aren't transparent that this is *not* the experience you get from free ChatGPT or Gemini, or whatever. Maybe everyone is talking past each other, but IMO it's pretty basic that a tool not being free is worth being explicit about.
July 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Given the situation with nearly every other developer tool, anything non-free is expensive (especially for non-professional or open source developers). $200/month is ludicrous, and even $20/month is more than I pay for any software that I use - for *anything*.
July 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It also feels like "here's a free power tool that cuts your arm off most of the time, but that's ok because there's a hugely expensive one that mostly works once you learn its quirks, and keep a surgeon nearby just in case"
July 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Is it just me, or does this feel like a weird selling point?
July 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ah yes, that one. I agree - a ridiculous argument. I had a go at rebutting it, but they don't seem to be really responding to concerns/feedback :-(
June 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Sounds like you should (and add a link to the post on the PEP thread). I haven't read the PEP yet, but I'm not even sure why "changing a class at runtime" is relevant (except in the context of "... which makes immutability hard, so this is what we've done to deal with it").
June 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Cool. When free models are effective I'll take a look. Until then, it would be nice if pro-AI posts (in general, not specifically you) included some sort of "how much I pay to get results like this" information...
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
100USD/month??!!! When the majority of development tools are free, that's a ridiculous amount of money. I don't believe I've ever paid that much for a service. If the people supportive of LLMs are paying this much, I'm not surprised there is such a huge divide between promoters and skeptics:-(
June 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM