Monday, April 28, 2025

UV: Python tool (AI programming)

UV (short for "unified") is a fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust,
 that's designed to replace traditional tools like pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv

It offers a streamlined, high-performance solution for managing Python projects, including virtual environments, dependencies, and more.

astral-sh/uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. @GitHub

  • 🚀 A single tool to replace pippip-toolspipxpoetrypyenvtwinevirtualenv, and more.
  • ⚡️ 10-100x faster than pip.

docs: uv  //docs.astral.sh/uv/

Installation | uv

# With pip.
pip install uv
# On Windows.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Installing and managing Python | uv

Python UV: The Ultimate Guide to the Fastest Python Package Manager | DataCamp


uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager - YouTube

Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, which develops uv, a next-generation Python package manager written in Rust. In this talk, Charlie details the unique challenges of the Python packaging ecosystem and how he made uv so fast: allocators, concurrency, zero-copy tricks, and more.


uv: The Ultra-Fast Python Package Manager 🚀 - YouTube
by NeuralNine

Getting Started with uv: Setting Up Your Python Project in 2025


Course: MCP Crash Course: Complete Model Context Protocol in a Day | Udemy Business
(UV python virtual envs)

Solving "Mythical AI Agent Month": Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph was created 10 years ago with an objective to solve "The Mythical Man-Month" problem
by providing source code search and organization tool. 

Now, the same problem still exists, and with using "AI Agents" to generate source code on large scale, it is potentially even worse, there is much more messy code to manage. 

So new tools and processes are being created to effectively manage code projects.

Sourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu - Software Engineering Daily (podcast)


The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia

a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975,

adding manpower to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. This idea is known as Brooks's law,


So updated version of this "law"

adding AI to a software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. 


"AI Overview"

The saying "It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many women you get pregnant" illustrates that a single pregnancy and birth takes nine months, regardless of the number of women involved.

The phrase, often attributed to Fred Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man-Month," emphasizes that simply increasing resources (people) doesn't guarantee a faster outcome, especially in complex projects.