<description>&lt;strong&gt;Topics covered in this episode:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://starlette.dev/release-notes/#100rc1-february-23-2026"&gt;Starlette 1.0.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://astral.sh/blog/openai?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Astral to join OpenAI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;uv audit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/fire-and-forget-or-never-with-python-s-asyncio/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #1: &lt;a href="https://starlette.dev/release-notes/#100rc1-february-23-2026"&gt;Starlette 1.0.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;As a reminder, Starlette is the foundation for FastAPI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://marcelotryle.com/blog/2026/03/22/starlette-10-is-here/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Starlette 1.0 is here!&lt;/a&gt; - fun blog post from Marcello Trylesinski&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“The changes in 1.0 were limited to removing old deprecated code that had been on the way out for years, along with a few bug fixes. From now on we'll follow SemVer strictly.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fun comment in the “What’s next?” section:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“Oh, and Sebastián, Starlette is now out of your way to release FastAPI 1.0. 😉”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Related: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlette/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Simon Willison&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;example of the new lifespan mechanism, very pytest fixture-like
&lt;div class="codehilite"&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nd"&gt;@contextlib&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;asynccontextmanager&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;async&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;def&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="nf"&gt;lifespan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;app&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;):&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="k"&gt;async&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="k"&gt;with&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;some_async_resource&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;():&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nb"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s2"&gt;&amp;quot;Run at startup!&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="k"&gt;yield&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class="nb"&gt;print&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s2"&gt;&amp;quot;Run on shutdown!&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;app&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;Starlette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;routes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;routes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="n"&gt;lifespan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;lifespan&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="p"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #2: &lt;a href="https://astral.sh/blog/openai?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Astral to join OpenAI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;via John Hagen, thanks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Astral has agreed to join &lt;a href="https://openai.com/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OpenAI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as part of the &lt;a href="https://chatgpt.com/codex?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Codex&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; team&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Congrats Charlie and team&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Seems like &lt;a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;**Ruff&lt;/a&gt;** and &lt;a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;uv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; play an important roll.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Perhaps &lt;a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/ty?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; holds the most value to directly boost Codex (understanding codebases for the AI)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All that said, these were open source so there is way more to the motivations than just using the tools.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;After joining the Codex team, we'll continue building our open source tools.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/openai-acquiring-astral/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Simon Willison has thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://discuss.python.org?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/openai-to-acquire-astral/106605?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;iscuss.python.org also has thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/openai-is-acquiring-open-source-python-tool-maker-astral/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Ars Technica article&lt;/a&gt; has interesting comments too&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It’s probably the death &lt;a href="https://astral.sh/pyx?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;pyx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Simon points out “pyx is notably absent from both the Astral and OpenAI announcement posts.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #3: uv audit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Submitted by Owen Lemont&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pieces of &lt;code&gt;uv audit&lt;/code&gt; have been trickling in. &lt;a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;uv 0.10.12 exposes it to the cli help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Here’s the &lt;a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/18506?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;roadmap for uv audit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I tried it out on a package and found a security issue with a dependency
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;not of the project, but of the testing dependencies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;but only if using Python &amp;lt; 3.10, even though I’m using 3.14&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kinda cool&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Looks like it generates a uv.lock file, which includes dependencies for all project supported versions of Python and systems, which is a very thorough way to check for vulnerabilities.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;But also, maybe some pointers on how to fix the problem would be good. No &lt;code&gt;--fix&lt;/code&gt; yet.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #4: &lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/fire-and-forget-or-never-with-python-s-asyncio/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Python’s &lt;code&gt;asyncio.create_task()&lt;/code&gt; can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Formerly fine async code can now stop working, so heads up&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The fix? Use a set to upgrade to a strong ref and a callback to remove it&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Is there a chance of task-based memory leaks? Yeah, maybe.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Brian:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity&lt;/a&gt; - interesting read and unfortunate truth in too many places.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/okken/pytest-check?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;pytest-check&lt;/a&gt; - All built-in check helper functions in this list also accept an optional &lt;code&gt;xfail&lt;/code&gt; reason.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;example: &lt;code&gt;check.equal(actual, expected, xfail="known issue #123")&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allows some checks to still cause a failure to happen because you no longer have to mark the whole test as xfail
Michael:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/rachpradhan/status/2034191434182738096?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;TurboAPI&lt;/a&gt; - FastAPI + Pydantic compatible framework in Zig (see &lt;a href="https://x.com/rachpradhan/status/2035928730242371716?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;follow up&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/2.1-branch/whatsnew-2.1.html?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Pyramid 2.1&lt;/a&gt; is out (yes really! :) first release in 3 years)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-9/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Vivaldi 7.9 adds&lt;/a&gt; minimalist hide mode.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrated &lt;a href="http://pythonbytes.fm"&gt;pythonbytes.fm&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://talkpython.fm?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;talkpython.fm&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/raw-dc-the-orm-pattern-of-2026/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Raw+DC design pattern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/use-chameleon-templates-in-the-robyn-web-framework/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Robyn + Chameleon package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke: We now have &lt;a href="https://translate.kagi.com?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;translation services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

Topics include Starlette 1.0.0, Astral to join OpenAI, , and Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio.

#474 Astral to join OpenAI

<description>&lt;strong&gt;Topics covered in this episode:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;chardet ,AI, and licensing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;refined-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic Engineering Patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #1: chardet ,AI, and licensing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thanks Ian Lessing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wow, where to start?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A bit of &lt;a href="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/chardet-precedence-2026.html?cache_id=7ccbb8"&gt;legal precedence research&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens&lt;/a&gt; on the Register&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Also see &lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;this GitHub issue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dan Blanchard, &lt;strong&gt;maintainer&lt;/strong&gt; of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. (LGPL → MIT)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dan is allowed to make this change because v7 is a complete “clean room” rewrite using AI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;BTW, v7 is WAY better:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The result is a 48x increase in detection speed for a project that lives in the hot loops of many projects. That will lead to noticeable performance increases for literally millions of users (the package gets ~130M downloads per month).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It paves a path towards inclusion in the standard library (assuming they don’t institute policies against using AI tools).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thread-safe detect() and detect_all() with no measurable overhead; scales on free-threaded Python 3.13t+&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An individual claiming to be Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of the library, opened an issue in the project's GitHub repo arguing that Blanchard had no right to change the software license, citing the LPGL requirement that the license remain unchanged.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A 'complete rewrite' is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed code (i.e. this is not a 'clean room' implementation).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Blanchard disagreed, &lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078"&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt; how version 7.0.0 and 6.0.0 compare when subjected to &lt;a href="https://github.com/jplag/JPlag?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;JPlag&lt;/a&gt;, a library for detecting plagiarism.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Blanchard told The Register he had wanted to get chardet added to the Python standard library for more than a decade since it’s a core dependency to most Python projects.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #2: &lt;a href="https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;refined-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suggested by Matthias Schöttle&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A browser plugin that improves the GitHub experience&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A sampling
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adds a link back to the PR that ran the workflow.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enables tab and shift tab for indentation in comment fields.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Auto-resizes comment fields to fit their content and no longer show scroll bars.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Highlights the most useful comment in issues.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Changes the default sort order of issues/PRs to Recently updated.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;But really, it’s a huge list of improvements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #3: pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PgDog is a proxy for scaling PostgreSQL.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It supports connection pooling, load balancing queries and sharding entire databases.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, secure and can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Features
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PgDog is an application layer load balancer for PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Health Checks: PgDog maintains a real-time list of healthy hosts. When a database fails a health check, it's removed from the active rotation and queries are re-routed to other replicas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Single Endpoint: PgDog can detect writes (e.g. INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE TABLE, etc.) and send them to the primary, leaving the replicas to serve reads&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Failover: PgDog monitors Postgres replication state and can automatically redirect writes to a different database if a replica is promoted&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sharding: PgDog is able to manage databases with multiple shards&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #4: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic Engineering Patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Simon Willison&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;So much great stuff here, especially
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Anti-patterns: things to avoid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And 3 sections on testing
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Red/green TDD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/first-run-the-tests/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;First run the test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/agentic-manual-testing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic manual testing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Brian:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/python-versions/#upgrading-python-versions"&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;uv python upgrade&amp;lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  will upgrade all versions of Python installed with uv to latest patch release
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;suggested by John Hagen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NY Times Article&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116223895301033633?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Suggested by Christopher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Best quote: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Michael:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Talk Python Training users get &lt;a href="https://training.talkpython.fm/account/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;a better account dashboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Package Managers Need to Cool Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/will-ai-kill-open-source/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Will AI Kill Open Source&lt;/a&gt;, article + video&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/always-activate-the-venv-a-shell-script/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Always activate the venv&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432574562208227328/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;now a zsh-plugin&lt;/a&gt;, sorta.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke: &lt;a href="https://x.com/mattrothenberg/status/2031383560062370235?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Ergonomic keyboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b" alt="" /&gt;
Also pretty good and related:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/116238970854696785?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;Claude Code Mandated&amp;lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;img src="473/claude-mandated.png" alt="claude-mandated.png" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/chardet-precedence-2026.html?cache_id=7ccbb8"&gt;legal precedence research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;this GitHub issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078"&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/jplag/JPlag?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;JPlag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;refined-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic Engineering Patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Anti-patterns: things to avoid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Red/green TDD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/first-run-the-tests/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;First run the test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/agentic-manual-testing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic manual testing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/python-versions/#upgrading-python-versions"&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;uv python upgrade&amp;lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116223895301033633?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Suggested by Christopher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://training.talkpython.fm/account/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;a better account dashboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Package Managers Need to Cool Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/will-ai-kill-open-source/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Will AI Kill Open Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/always-activate-the-venv-a-shell-script/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Always activate the venv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432574562208227328/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;now a zsh-plugin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/mattrothenberg/status/2031383560062370235?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Ergonomic keyboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/116238970854696785?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;Claude Code Mandated&amp;lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://473/claude-mandated.png?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;claude-mandated.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b"&gt;blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</description>

Topics include , refined-github, , and Agentic Engineering Patterns.

#473 A clean room rewrite?

<description>&lt;strong&gt;Topics covered in this episode:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;chardet ,AI, and licensing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;refined-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic Engineering Patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QmbsDNmrM0' style='font-weight: bold;'data-umami-event="Livestream-Past" data-umami-event-episode="473"&gt;Watch on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #1: chardet ,AI, and licensing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thanks Ian Lessing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wow, where to start?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A bit of &lt;a href="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/chardet-precedence-2026.html?cache_id=7ccbb8"&gt;legal precedence research&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens&lt;/a&gt; on the Register&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Also see &lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;this GitHub issue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dan Blanchard, &lt;strong&gt;maintainer&lt;/strong&gt; of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. (LGPL → MIT)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dan is allowed to make this change because v7 is a complete “clean room” rewrite using AI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;BTW, v7 is WAY better:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The result is a 48x increase in detection speed for a project that lives in the hot loops of many projects. That will lead to noticeable performance increases for literally millions of users (the package gets ~130M downloads per month).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It paves a path towards inclusion in the standard library (assuming they don’t institute policies against using AI tools).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thread-safe detect() and detect_all() with no measurable overhead; scales on free-threaded Python 3.13t+&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An individual claiming to be Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of the library, opened an issue in the project's GitHub repo arguing that Blanchard had no right to change the software license, citing the LPGL requirement that the license remain unchanged.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A 'complete rewrite' is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed code (i.e. this is not a 'clean room' implementation).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Blanchard disagreed, &lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078"&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt; how version 7.0.0 and 6.0.0 compare when subjected to &lt;a href="https://github.com/jplag/JPlag?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;JPlag&lt;/a&gt;, a library for detecting plagiarism.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Blanchard told The Register he had wanted to get chardet added to the Python standard library for more than a decade since it’s a core dependency to most Python projects.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #2: &lt;a href="https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;refined-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suggested by Matthias Schöttle&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A browser plugin that improves the GitHub experience&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A sampling
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adds a link back to the PR that ran the workflow.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enables tab and shift tab for indentation in comment fields.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Auto-resizes comment fields to fit their content and no longer show scroll bars.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Highlights the most useful comment in issues.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Changes the default sort order of issues/PRs to Recently updated.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;But really, it’s a huge list of improvements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #3: pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PgDog is a proxy for scaling PostgreSQL.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It supports connection pooling, load balancing queries and sharding entire databases.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, secure and can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Features
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PgDog is an application layer load balancer for PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Health Checks: PgDog maintains a real-time list of healthy hosts. When a database fails a health check, it's removed from the active rotation and queries are re-routed to other replicas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Single Endpoint: PgDog can detect writes (e.g. INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE TABLE, etc.) and send them to the primary, leaving the replicas to serve reads&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Failover: PgDog monitors Postgres replication state and can automatically redirect writes to a different database if a replica is promoted&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sharding: PgDog is able to manage databases with multiple shards&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #4: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic Engineering Patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Simon Willison&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;So much great stuff here, especially
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Anti-patterns: things to avoid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And 3 sections on testing
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Red/green TDD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/first-run-the-tests/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;First run the test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/agentic-manual-testing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic manual testing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Brian:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/python-versions/#upgrading-python-versions"&gt;&lt;code&gt;uv python upgrade&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  will upgrade all versions of Python installed with uv to latest patch release
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;suggested by John Hagen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NY Times Article&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116223895301033633?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Suggested by Christopher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Best quote: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Michael:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Talk Python Training users get &lt;a href="https://training.talkpython.fm/account/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;a better account dashboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Package Managers Need to Cool Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/will-ai-kill-open-source/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Will AI Kill Open Source&lt;/a&gt;, article + video&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/always-activate-the-venv-a-shell-script/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Always activate the venv&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432574562208227328/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;now a zsh-plugin&lt;/a&gt;, sorta.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke: &lt;a href="https://x.com/mattrothenberg/status/2031383560062370235?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Ergonomic keyboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b" alt="" /&gt;
Also pretty good and related:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/116238970854696785?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;code&gt;Claude Code Mandated&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;img src="473/claude-mandated.png" alt="claude-mandated.png" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/chardet-precedence-2026.html?cache_id=7ccbb8"&gt;legal precedence research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;this GitHub issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078"&gt;citing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/jplag/JPlag?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;JPlag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;refined-github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic Engineering Patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Anti-patterns: things to avoid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Red/green TDD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/first-run-the-tests/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;First run the test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/agentic-manual-testing/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Agentic manual testing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/python-versions/#upgrading-python-versions"&gt;&lt;code&gt;uv python upgrade&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116223895301033633?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Suggested by Christopher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://training.talkpython.fm/account/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;a better account dashboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Package Managers Need to Cool Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/will-ai-kill-open-source/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Will AI Kill Open Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/always-activate-the-venv-a-shell-script/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Always activate the venv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432574562208227328/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;now a zsh-plugin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/mattrothenberg/status/2031383560062370235?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Ergonomic keyboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/116238970854696785?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;code&gt;Claude Code Mandated&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://473/claude-mandated.png?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;claude-mandated.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b"&gt;blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</description>

<description>&lt;strong&gt;Topics covered in this episode:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://dev.to/aws/3-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-setting-up-a-uv-workspace-30j6?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://catt.rs/en/stable/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;cattrs&lt;/a&gt;: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://jblanca.net/edu/learning_programming_in_ai_age/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Learning to program in the AI age&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/savannahostrowski_hey-you-are-you-using-fastapi-well-activity-7432877782914977793-2ayP/?utm_medium=ios_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAABOjqABPkOWTTbZXV9tmnQohvpkplQOibU&amp;utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_campaign=share_via&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;VS Code extension&lt;/a&gt; for FastAPI and friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT0gRrQVmU' style='font-weight: bold;'data-umami-event="Livestream-Past" data-umami-event-episode="472"&gt;Watch on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #1: &lt;a href="https://dev.to/aws/3-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-setting-up-a-uv-workspace-30j6?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dennis Traub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The 3 things
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Give the Root a Distinct Name&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use workspace = true for Inter-Package Deps&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use importlib Mode for pytest&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #2: &lt;a href="https://catt.rs/en/stable/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;cattrs&lt;/a&gt;: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cattrs&lt;/strong&gt; is a Swiss Army knife for (un)structuring and validating data in Python.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A natural alternative/follow on from &lt;a href="https://github.com/rnag/dataclass-wizard?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;DataClass Wizard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Converts to ←→ from dictionaries&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;cattrs&lt;/em&gt; also focuses on &lt;strong&gt;functional composition&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;not coupling&lt;/strong&gt; your data model to its serialization and validation rules.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When you’re handed unstructured data (by your network, file system, database, …), &lt;em&gt;cattrs&lt;/em&gt; helps to convert this data into trustworthy structured data.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Batteries Included: cattrs comes with pre-configured converters for a number of serialization libraries, including JSON (standard library, orjson, UltraJSON), msgpack, cbor2, bson, PyYAML, tomlkit and msgspec (supports only JSON at this time).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #3: &lt;a href="https://jblanca.net/edu/learning_programming_in_ai_age/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Learning to program in the AI age&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jose Blanca&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“I teach a couple of introductory Python courses and I've been thinking about which advice to give to my students, that are studying how to program for the first time. I have collected my ideas in these blog posts”
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://jblanca.net/blog/2026/03/06/learning-to-code-in-the-ai-age/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; learning to program is as useful as ever, even with powerful AI tools available.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://jblanca.net/blog/2026/03/07/the-art-of-learning-in-the-ai-age/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;How&lt;/a&gt; to use AI as a tutor rather than a shortcut, and why practice remains the key to real understanding.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://jblanca.net/blog/2026/03/08/programming-what-to-learn/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;What&lt;/a&gt; the real learning objectives are: mental models, managing complexity, and thinking like a software developer.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #4: &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/savannahostrowski_hey-you-are-you-using-fastapi-well-activity-7432877782914977793-2ayP/?utm_medium=ios_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAABOjqABPkOWTTbZXV9tmnQohvpkplQOibU&amp;utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_campaign=share_via&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;VS Code extension&lt;/a&gt; for FastAPI and friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enhances the FastAPI development experience in Visual Studio Code&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Path Operation Explorer&lt;/strong&gt;: Provides a hierarchical tree view of all FastAPI routes in your application.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search for routes&lt;/strong&gt;: Use the Command Palette and quickly search for routes by path, method, or name.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CodeLens links appear above HTTP client calls&lt;/strong&gt; like client.get('/items'), letting you jump directly to the matching route definition.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deploy your application&lt;/strong&gt; directly to &lt;a href="https://fastapicloud.com/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;FastAPI Cloud&lt;/a&gt; from the status bar with zero config.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;View &lt;strong&gt;real-time logs from your FastAPI Cloud&lt;/strong&gt; deployed applications directly within VS Code.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=FastAPILabs.fastapi-vscode&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Install from Marketplace&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Brian:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/index.html?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Guido van Rossum interviews key Python developers from the first 25 years&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/BrettCannon.html?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview with Brett Cannon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/ThomasWouters.html?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview with Thomas Wouters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Michael:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kourq_Lz03U"&gt;IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | An origin story&lt;/a&gt; video&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cursor Joined &lt;a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/acp/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;the ACP Registry&lt;/a&gt; and Is &lt;a href="https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/03/cursor-joined-the-acp-registry-and-is-now-live-in-your-jetbrains-ide/?utm_source=marketo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=blog&amp;utm_campaign=ai&amp;lidx=0&amp;wpid=685326&amp;mkt_tok=NDI2LVFWRC0xMTQAAAGgXJQdteprtfw26Lw-urwLQEjJcm8qYIOseeX-9jODplxTohhXyxl11ZbYr2ehMl__lEyRq0YT8B-mqpzj-fMmOeHXBN0Lz1o9_QOCmx7qSij-fDKY&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Now Live in Your JetBrains IDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/what-hyper-personal-software-looks-like/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;What hyper-personal software looks like&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I’m doing in-person training again (limited scope):
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/agentic-ai-enablement/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;On-site, hands-on AI engineering enablement for software teams with Michael&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Joke: &lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SaasDevelopers/comments/1rcdzrk/saas_is_dead/?share_id=Zi4lrnVSFkytCUnpfYIMo&amp;utm_content=1&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Saas is dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

Topics include Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces, cattrs, Learning to program in the AI age, and VS Code extension.

#472 Monorepos

<description>&lt;strong&gt;Topics covered in this episode:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/raw-dc-the-orm-pattern-of-2026/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/okken/pytest-check/releases?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;pytest-check releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://dcw.ritviknag.com/en/latest/#"&gt;Dataclass Wizard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/adamghill/sqliteo?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;SQLiteo&lt;/a&gt; - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZyf7KtTQVU' style='font-weight: bold;'data-umami-event="Livestream-Past" data-umami-event-episode="471"&gt;Watch on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #1: &lt;a href="https://mkennedy.codes/posts/raw-dc-the-orm-pattern-of-2026/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;ORMs/ODMs provide great support and abstractions for developers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They are not the &lt;em&gt;native&lt;/em&gt; language of agentic AI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Raw queries are trained 100x+ more than standard ORMs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using raw queries at the data access optimizes for AI coding&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Returning some sort of object mapped to the data optimizes for type safety and devs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #2: &lt;a href="https://github.com/okken/pytest-check/releases?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;pytest-check releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;3 merged pull requests&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;8 closed issues&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;at one point got to 0 PR’s and 1 enhancement request&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Now back to 2 issues and 1 PR, but activity means it’s still alive and being used. so cool&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check out &lt;a href="https://github.com/okken/pytest-check/blob/main/changelog.md?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;changelog&lt;/a&gt; for all mods&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A lot of changes around supporting mypy
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I’ve decided to NOT have the examples be fully &lt;code&gt;--strict&lt;/code&gt; as I find it reduces readability
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;See &lt;code&gt;tox.ini&lt;/code&gt; for explanation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;But src is &lt;code&gt;--strict&lt;/code&gt; clean now, so user tests can be &lt;code&gt;--strict&lt;/code&gt; clean.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael #3: &lt;a href="https://dcw.ritviknag.com/en/latest/#"&gt;Dataclass Wizard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simple, elegant wizarding tools for Python’s&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;dataclasses&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Features
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🚀 Fast — code-generated loaders and dumpers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🪶 Lightweight — pure Python, minimal dependencies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🧠 Typed — powered by Python type hints&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🧙 Flexible — JSON, YAML, TOML, and environment variables&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🧪 Reliable — battle-tested with extensive test coverage&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://dcw.ritviknag.com/en/latest/#no-inheritance-needed"&gt;No Inheritance Needed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian #4: &lt;a href="https://github.com/adamghill/sqliteo?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;SQLiteo&lt;/a&gt; - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adam Hill&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This is a fun tool, built by someone I trust.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;That trust part is something I’m thinking about a lot in these days of dev+agent built tools&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Some notes on my thoughts when evaluating
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I know mac rules around installing .dmg files not from the apple store are picky.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And I like that&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;But I’m ok with the override when something comes from a dev I trust&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The contributors are all Adam
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I’m still not sure how I feel about letting agents do commits in repos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There’s “AGENTS” folder and markdown files in the project for agents, so Ad&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Michael:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplugged/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;PyTV Python Unplugged This Week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;IBM Crashes 11% in 4 Hours&lt;/a&gt; - $24 Billion Wiped Out After Anthropic's Claude Code         Threatens the Entire COBOL Consulting Industry&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Loving my &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJYNVR3R?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;40” ultrawide monitor&lt;/a&gt; more every day&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://updatest.app?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Updatest&lt;/a&gt; for updating all the mac things&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qwkq38/os_thaw_a_fork_of_ice_menu_bar_manager_for_macos/?featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;Ice has Thawed out&lt;/a&gt; (mac menubar app)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joke: &lt;a href="https://x.com/pr0grammerhum0r/status/2018852032304566331?s=12&amp;featured_on=pythonbytes"&gt;House is read-only&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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#471 The ORM pattern of 2026?

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