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I appreciate you taking the time to explain this. The point of my post was not that I was right and pyon was wrong. I said that his point was something I hadn't encountered before. I'm happy to learn more.

The point of the post was that he did not do what you have done here. Instead of explaining in a way that let people learn, he belittled and insulted.

When I said I hadn't encountered the detail before, I didn't mean amortization was the detail. I meant the order of operations (pyon's complaint) was the detail.

I think you are being very generous to call his comment "obvious humor". A number of the people in that comment stream missed the humor, and pyon gave no indication (such as a tone indicator) that it was humor.

Fixed! The comments are back on the page.

Hmm, there are no comments on the page, I think that's a bug I introduced when I removed the ".html" suffix from the URLs maybe? I'll look into it.

It does seem small at Anthropic scale. But instead of faulting them for contributing "so little", maybe we can point to the thousands of large companies that are doing nothing.

You really have no idea what you are talking about.

Yes, it could use more funding. Glad to see that Anthropic is helping. It's still not an either/or situation. The PSF would not be fulfilling their mission if they only funded packaging until packaging was "solved" (whatever that might mean) and only then did they fund outreach.

OK, thanks for making your position clear. You disagree with some of the core mission of the PSF. Luckily you are in the minority and the PSF is carrying on.

I'm not sure how you got to "before" here. The PSF runs PyPI, organizes the Python Packaging Authority, supports sprints and standardization efforts, funds developers in residence and so on. Packaging is improving, partly because of those efforts. It's not an either/or.

I'm not sure what you are labeling as pet projects of leadership? Is there something the PSF is doing that you consider a pet project rather than part of their core mission?

Is it so hard to imagine that they do it because the PSF's work is important and they want to support them? All the AI labs depend hugely on the Python ecosystem and infrastructure. Startups burning cash spend on many things that are important to them.