4 posts tagged “carlton-gibson”
2025
Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source (via) From reading the title I was nervous that this might involve automating the initial response to a user support query in an issue tracker with an LLM, but Carlton Gibson has better taste than that.
The open contribution model engendered by GitHub — where anonymous (to the project) users can create issues, and comments, which are almost always extractive support requests — results in an effective denial-of-service attack against maintainers. [...]
For anonymous users, who really just want help almost all the time, the pattern I’m settling on is to facilitate them getting their answer from their LLM of choice. [...] we can generate a file that we offer users to download, then we tell the user to pass this to (say) Claude with a simple prompt for their question.
This resonates with the concept proposed by llms.txt - making LLM-friendly context files available for different projects.
My simonw/docs-for-llms contains my own early experiment with this: I'm running a build script to create LLM-friendly concatenated documentation for several of my projects, and my llm-docs plugin (described here) can then be used to ask questions of that documentation.
It's possible to pre-populate the Claude UI with a prompt by linking to https://claude.ai/new?q={PLACE_HOLDER}, but it looks like there's quite a short length limit on how much text can be passed that way. It would be neat if you could pass a URL to a larger document instead.
ChatGPT also supports https://chatgpt.com/?q=your-prompt-here (again with a short length limit) and directly executes the prompt rather than waiting for you to edit it first(!)
2024
2025 DSF Board Nominations. The Django Software Foundation board elections are coming up. There are four positions open, seven directors total. Terms last two years, and the deadline for submitting a nomination is October 25th (the date of the election has not yet been decided).
Several community members have shared "DSF initiatives I'd like to see" documents to inspire people who may be considering running for the board:
- Sarah Boyce (current Django Fellow) wants a marketing strategy, better community docs, more automation and a refresh of the Django survey.
- Tim Schilling wants one big sponsor, more community recognition and a focus on working groups.
- Carlton Gibson wants an Executive Director, an updated website and better integration of the community into that website.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss wants effectively all of the above.
There's also a useful FAQ on the Django forum by Thibaud Colas.
2022
Weeknotes: DjangoCon, SQLite in Django, datasette-gunicorn
I spent most of this week at DjangoCon in San Diego—my first outside-of-the-Bay-Area conference since the before-times.
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Inevitably we got round to talking about async.
As much of an unneeded complication as it is for so many day-to-day use-cases, it’s important for Python because, if and when you do need the high throughput handling of these io-bound use-cases, you don’t want to have to switch language.
The same for Django: most of what you’re doing has no need of async but you don’t want to have to change web framework just because you need a sprinkling of non-blocking IO.