Rich author Will McGugan: AI-era bug reports are like full-body scans
hugobowne · x · 2026-11-07
Will McGugan, author of Python's Rich library, is doing a maintenance pass for a Python 3.15 release, happily handing mechanical updates to AI agents.
But triaging bug reports has become painful: pages of text for trivial bugs where one sentence would do, typically edge cases discovered by AI and never seen in practice.
He compares it to over-testing in medicine — a full-body scan finds suspicious lumps in almost everyone, most harmless, yet follow-up tests and biopsies carry risk. Likewise, once AI surfaces an issue, investigating and fixing it introduces risk of its own.
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