Jodie Burchell 🇦🇺🇩🇪

With less than a week until Python Unplugged on PyTV, I got into the 90's spirit with my fellow hosts @cheukting_ho@fosstodon.org and Will Vincent to discuss what our favourite fashion from the time was. (Please don't judge mine too much, I was a teenager at the time!)

What was your favourite bit of 90's fashion? 👡

Now that I'm a team lead, Slack's "remind me" feature has become my new best friend 🫠

With all of this talk about AI agents, you might have thought about building one yourself. But getting started can be overwhelming: the non-deterministic workflows feel bewildering, documentation may not be clear, and examples you look at magic away the details.

If you want an approachable way to get started, I've put together a step-by-step tutorial which explains how to build every component in a ReAct agent using LangGraph.

Check it out on the PyCharm channel now!

I'm sure looking forward to supporting BEST TEAM! They're my favourite team in SPORT!

RE: @ThePSF@fosstodon.org

If you can spare the time, please fill out the survey - it really helps the Python community :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

After 10 years in data science, I've completely lost the ability to correctly spell "jupiter" on the first go.

Have you ever looked at the impressive results that LLMs get on benchmarks or difficult exams and wondered if these results are everything they seem? Some of these are due to something called data leakage, where assessments leak into the training data and the models memorise the answers.

If you'd like to learn more about how this classic pitfall of machine learning calls many of the results we see on LLM performance into question, check out my latest blog post.

https://t-redactyl.io/posts/2025-12-30-data-leakage-llm-measurement/

New year ... new website!

My personal blog hit its 10th anniversary last year, and it felt like a good time to give it a makeover.

Check it out if you'd like to learn more about data science, machine learning and LLMs, or just see what I've been up to lately!

https://t-redactyl.io/

Our PyCharm Reddit AMA starts in just 15 minutes! Come over to ask any questions about PyCharm, our planned features or any feedback you want to give us!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jetbrains/comments/1pd9yo5/ask_me_anything_with_the_pycharm_team_december_9/

Looking for a present for that hard-to-buy-for developer in your life? JetBrains now has its own ugly Christmas jumper, just in time for the holidays.

I may have already bought one for my husband 🤭

https://www.jetbrainsmerchandise.com/christmas-jumper.html