On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM Peter Wang via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM sebastian <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey! thanks a lot for chiming in, still watching the videos! >> > > Awesome, definitely let me know if you have any questions/feedback! > > For the maintainer I think the "blast radius" framework could be very >> useful and it >> may be nice to flesh it out (I don't think there is anything NumPy >> specific about it, >> i.e. in my mind (1) is basically examples for the blast radius?). >> > > Actually, I think this is something where the NumPy-specific bits could be > extraordinarily helpful, and in a sense, it manifests the worldview that > you & other maintainers have painstakingly built up over time. There will > be some parts that are pretty generic to all software projects, but there > are quite a lot of subtle and intricate design choices that go into making > Numpy what it is. These may not be obvious to a coding LLM that, > ultimately, will regress to the mean on matters of technical design and > architecture. > > Examples include: > > * To what degree is a performance reduction acceptable, and when is it a > regression? > * What kinds of hardware optimizations are acceptable, at the price of > maintainability? > * How important is it to insist that all tests pass for all supported > architectures? (Ie what is the compatibility rubric?) > * Which downstream projects or specific API surfaces are important to > prioritize testing on, for numerical stability, accuracy, performance, etc.? > > I'm sure you all can come up with many more :-) > > I also believe that maintainers writing down your unique & specific > individual perspectives will ultimately form the foundations of a "Numpy > code bot" that can assist in development in the future, assuming we get a > non-legally-problematic coding model created. > > -Peter > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/numpy-discussion.python.org > Member address: [email protected] >
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