Astral to Join OpenAI

Posted by ibraheemdev 23 hours ago

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/

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nrvn 21 hours ago|

Should I freeze my plans to migrate from `poetry` to `uv` at "${WORK}"?

tyree731 20 hours ago||

Assuming things start getting weird about 18 months from now, poetry and uv have very similar semantics, so 18 months of comically faster workflows sounds nice.

butlike 20 hours ago||

Sure, why not

Patt_ 21 hours ago||

Whoa, So Sam and Drio are just gonna buy out every popular open source projects now?

fastasucan 17 hours ago||

This leaves me a bit scared for uv and ruff to be honest.

0xDEFACED 21 hours ago||

will private packages hosted on pyx be available for openai to use as training data?

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 13 hours ago|

Dude, no. That’s not how licenses work. That’s absurd. You really think that whatever little code is in pyx is providing any material training edge over the code that OpenAI already has access to? Get off it.

brikym 15 hours ago||

Does this mean pip is finally getting PIP'd?

Lws803 17 hours ago||

Wonder if they can still use claude code in their repos now

mhd 18 hours ago||

Maybe it's time to get out my Cowlishaw Rexx book again…

emddudley 21 hours ago||

Well shit, I feel betrayed. This is exactly the opposite of what I thought Charlie's goals were. I thought he was focused on making the Python ecosystem better.

Bnjoroge 21 hours ago||

This was pretty obvious to just about anyone tbh. FastAPI is probably next

vaylian 17 hours ago||

The lead dev seems to think about using AI with FastAPI already: https://tiangolo.com/ideas/library-agent-skills/

incognito124 21 hours ago|||

Don't even joke

Bnjoroge 21 hours ago||

vcs gotta eat somehow, and iirc they were building a "fastapi cloud platform"

incognito124 20 hours ago||

I thought some more about it, and unfortunately it makes sense. IIRC there were several "insider" blogposts from OpenAI that said something along the lines of "Yeah almost every service we write is FastAPI"

Bnjoroge 19 hours ago|||

yeah and I wouldnt be surprised if some oltp database platform is in the horizon as well. iirc they already acquired rockset. The eventual goal for these AI platforms is to own the entire e2e platform for e2e agents, from literally the language ecosystem(anthropic betting on TS/Bun) to local dev tooling using their harnesses to production-grade stuff that an agent needs.

wiseowise 20 hours ago|||

Where can I find some of those?

incognito124 20 hours ago||

here's one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195

wiseowise 18 hours ago||

Thanks.

daredoes 20 hours ago|

It would seem to me that purchasing a piece of software as an AI company is just an outright admission that they could not generate an equivalent piece of software for a better price?

If it was cheaper to use their internal AI to create these tools, they would.

wiseowise 20 hours ago|

Extremely stupid argument. It doesn’t matter how good is your car if the driver is lacking.

QuadrupleA 19 hours ago||

Not sure I follow - is the car the coding agent, and the developer the driver?

Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are saying, just prompt them to "Remake UV but faster & better".

wiseowise 18 hours ago||

Car is the coding agent. Developer is the driver.

> Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are saying, just prompt them to "Remake UV but faster & better".

If average dev is more intelligent and amazing than any coding model, just hire a team of average devs and “remake UV but faster & better”.

QuadrupleA 18 hours ago||

Average dev might be more intelligent, but likely neither will produce something of UV's quality. Either AI coding claims are way overblown and OpenAI can't easily remake UV, or OpenAI is buying the ecosystem & mindshare rather the code, probably to lock-in, enshittify, and try to squeeze a profit out of a so far money-losing business (AI not Astral, though true for both I guess).

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