Re: Current policy on AI-generated code in NumPy

Bill Ross <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:15:14 -0800
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> On 2026-02-13 22:35, matti picus via NumPy-Discussion wrote:...

> Here is an example right now in NumPy. Apparently someone is deep 
> diving into performance edge cases. They (most likely with the help of 
> ai or totally by ai) submitted a three line PR
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/30810 to speed up np.array_equal. 
Now the same author submitted a much bigger PR to speed up np.isin
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/30828. Is the work the product of 
ai? Yes, but the author claims to have verified the code. Is the author 
ai or not? Should we proceed with the PR?
Matti

The interactions in the 2nd PR have the flat agreeableness of an LLM. 
mrdope, are you hear and clear? :-)

Bill

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