On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM Charles R Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. >> >> You can look through some of the SKILL.md files other folks have generated for hints of how to keep claude in line. Should we have such files? Would we accept PRs adding such files? They would be a tangible point of discussion if nothing else. Chuck
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