Shantanu
hauntsaninja.bsky.social
Shantanu
@hauntsaninja.bsky.social
@OpenAI since 2020. CPython core dev, making Python typing better

hauntsaninja.github.io
happy 6th birthday to gpt-2! 🍰

better language models really did have implications
February 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
proebsting's law would suggest this was 2.5 years' worth of work on compilers
January 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
tail calls with newer compiler calling conventions might make the Python interpreter 10% faster (up to 40% faster on specific benchmarks). github.com/faster-cpyth...
Tail-calling interpreter · Issue #642 · faster-cpython/ideas
An alternative dispatch mechanism to switch or computed gotos is to use tail calls. In a tail calling interpreter, dispatch is implemented as a tail call to the next instruction. For example: the C...
github.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
2024 squared away
December 31, 2024 at 1:06 AM
here's how to trick the python interpreter into giving you a great debugging experience in generated code: hauntsaninja.github.io/generated_br...
Breakpoints in generated Python code
hauntsaninja.github.io
November 24, 2024 at 5:53 AM