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The content is nice and insightful! But God I wish people stopped using LLMs to 'improve' their prose... Ironically, some day we might employ LLMs to re-humanize texts that had been already massacred.
Edit to add: I use python daily
The content is nice and insightful! But God I wish people stopped using LLMs to 'improve' their prose... Ironically, some day we might employ LLMs to re-humanize texts that had been already massacred.
I blame fixed AI system prompts - they forcibly collapse all inputs into the same output space. Truly disappointing that OpenAI et all have no desire to change this before everything on the internet sounds the same forever.
The content is nice and insightful! But God I wish people stopped using LLMs to 'improve' their prose... Ironically, some day we might employ LLMs to re-humanize texts that had been already massacred.
Interestingly I didn’t catch this, I liked it for not looking LLM written!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's only once so it's not persistently slower, but that is a perf hit. Sure, but you pay that hit either way. Real-world performance is always usage based: the assumption that uv makes is that people run (i.e. import) packages more often than they install them, so amortizing at the point of the import machinery is better for the mean user. (This assumption is not universal, naturally!)
Ummm, your comment is backwards, right?
(The key part being that 'less common' doesn't mean a non-trivial amount of time.)
I remain baffled about these posts getting excited about uv’s speed. I’d like to see a real poll but I personally can’t imagine people listing speed as one of the their top ten concerns about python package managers. What are the common use cases where the delay due to package installation is at all material? Edit to add: I use python daily
I remain baffled about these posts getting excited about uv’s speed. I’d like to see a real poll but I personally can’t imagine people listing speed as one of the their top ten concerns about python package managers. What are the common use cases where the delay due to package installation is at all material? Edit to add: I use python daily
uv seems to be a pet peeve of HN. I always thought pipenv was good but yeah, seems like I was being ignorant
I feel that sometimes there's a desire on the part of those who use tool X that everyone should use tool X. For some types of technology (car seat belts, antibiotics...) that might be reasonable but otherwise it seems more like a desire for validation of the advocate's own choice.
I don't have any real disagreement with any of the details the author said. But still, I'm skeptical. If it is doable, the best way to prove it is to actually do it. If no one implements it, was it ever really doable? Even if there is no technical reason, perhaps there is a social one?
> No bytecode compilation by default. pip compiles .py files to .pyc during installation. uv skips this step, shaving time off every install. You can opt in if you want it. Are we losing out on performance of the actual installed thing, then? (I'm not 100% clear on .pyc files TBH; I'm guessing they speed up start time?)