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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 14h

I'm having a "test-off" where I ask different models to write tests for an API, then compare their failures and coverage.
So far:
* GPT-5 has 100% passing tests, 49% coverage.
* Sonnet 4.5 has 95% passing tests, 56% coverage.

What other models should I try?

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 21h

I love the iNaturalist data!
I made a FastAPI app today that outputs "phenology" charts so you can see the active months for bees in the bay area.
(Most bees peak around May, like the Pyrobombus bumble bees)

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 23h

For the CS exams at Berkeley in 2021, students hand-wrote their answers, and GradeScope OCR'd them as best it could. We still had to hand-grade many of the digitized answers.. I once graded 500 regular expression answers in one sitting. Never doing that again!

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying Postgres with PostGIS in Python today. Should I use GeoAlchemy, or can I just use SQLAlchemy2 on its own?

geoalchemy-2.readthedocs.io

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 1d

"If you love what we made... just love us, we made it!"

www.youtube.com/shorts/4DW3h...

They’re so mad that the Halftime show will be in Spanish

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

www.youtube.com

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be at the Pytorch conference in SF on Oct 22-23, hanging at the Microsoft booth in the afternoons. Stop by if you're attending!
events.linuxfoundation.org/pytorch-conf...

PyTorch Conference | LF Events

PyTorch Conference 2025: Join AI leaders, ML engineers & researchers in San Francisco, Oct 22-23. Experience the future of machine learning & deep learning.

events.linuxfoundation.org

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 2d

🔴 Live @ 10am PT: "Retrieval Augmented Generation"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHeb...

Slides:
aka.ms/pythonai/sli...

Part 3 in our Python+AI series, join us!

Python + AI: Retrieval Augmented Generation

YouTube video by Microsoft Reactor

www.youtube.com

pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 2d

I only use Streamyard anymore, its surprisingly the most reliable software I've used.

pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 3d

LLMs are slow! But you can make the LLM answer appear faster by *streaming* the response, one token at a time.

Steps:
1) Call LLM API with stream=True
2) Return tokens over HTTP streaming response
3) Re-render in frontend

I wrote more in this post:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurede...

The importance of streaming for LLM-powered chat applications | Microsoft Community Hub

Thanks to the popularity of chat-based interfaces like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, users have grown accustomed to getting answers conversationally. As a...

techcommunity.microsoft.com

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 3d

🔴 Streaming at 10AM PT: Vector embeddings (Part 2 in our Python+AI series)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLe...

Python + AI: Vector embeddings

YouTube video by Microsoft Reactor

www.youtube.com

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 3d

Happy first-full-live-performance-of-Huntrix to those who celebrate:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-V...

EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

www.youtube.com

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Global AI Community @globalai.community · 4d

Tomorrow 6 PM at GitHub HQ! 🎙️

Valence AI: Emotion detection
Nox: Anticipatory AI
Pol Peiffer (Sierra AI): Voice agents

SF AI community gathers. Arrive early - limited space.

Last call ⬇️
aka.ms/aist-reg/gai...

#AIShowAndTell #Tomorrow

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 4d

🔴 Live @ 9AM PT: "Large Language Models", the first stream in the Python+AI series

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X967...

Slides: aka.ms/pythonai/sli...

Python + AI: Large Language Models

YouTube video by Microsoft Reactor

www.youtube.com

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 5d

Y si habla español, tendremos una serie para hispanohablantes, con @madebygps.com

🔗 Regístrese ahora:
aka.ms/PythonIA/Serie

pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 5d

My sister's an undergrad ML researcher and trying to choose a focus/lab. She's hearing conflicting advice about the best topics to pursue.
Any tips from those of you in the ML academia space?

pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 5d

Want to learn how to use Python with generative AI models?
Our free livestream series starts tomorrow!

For 3 weeks, every Tues/Wed/Thurs, tune in for:
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Listing of Python+AI series dates and titles

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 7d

awww and its a pseudo marquee!

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 7d

yeah it took me a while too. you can PerksPlus it!

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 8d

Yay see you there!

pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 8d

Currently reading "Empire of AI" by Karen Hao, a history of OpenAI based off interviews and documents.
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...

Really interesting to get more insight into how prioritization decisions were made. I now understand the OpenAI/Anthropic split better.

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

bookshop.org

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 8d

Yep I saw that! I'm asking on behalf of a dev who wrote their CLIs in Rust, so alas, he can't use that. Love that you have that for Textual though, as I write my CLIs in Textual usually.

pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 8d

I'm excited that Microsoft is sponsoring PyBay this year! It's a fantastic community-run conference in San Francisco. Get tickets if you'll be around!
pybay.org/sponsors/our...

PyBay 2025 - 10th Annual Bay Area Python Dev Conference

10th Annual Python developer conference - longest running on the US West Coast. Join us in San Francisco!

pybay.org

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 9d

Is there an equivalent of playwright/selenium for CLI tool E2E testing?

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 9d

Great tips from @simonwillison.net on agentic coding loops:
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/...
1) Use safe environments (like Codespaces) to enable YOLO mode
2) Use credentials with fine-grained access and constrained budgets for API calls
3) Setup automated tests so agent knows when it's succeeded

Designing agentic loops

Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …

simonwillison.net

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 9d

Added a smoke test to a demo app today, and it immediately caught a bug that I'd introduced an hour ago in a deployment-only path of the code.

Phew! 😅

Workflow file: (using Playwright for the test)
github.com/Azure-Sample...

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