On January 16, 2026, AI solved an impossible bug. A bug in a library downloaded over a billion times every year, with a wall of comments asking for help, several hacked-together workarounds, and an open call to the entire internet to please try to solve it. A bug that had been open for 15 years, languishing as the oldest open issue on the project’s GitHub, predating its migration to GitHub even, because it had stymied every person who had tried to tackle it. I myself had already spent a full day with little progress to show. It would have taken me at least another week of full-time effort to crack it. Claude Code took 50 minutes. Ahab chased his whale. Aguirre his gold. I had Issue #209 3D scatter plots don’t work in logscale. This was, on its face, not a simple thing to solve. You combine logarithmic scale transforms with 3D graphics, and the audience has already tuned you out and started doodling in the corners of their pamphlets. I had a head start on it after spending years poking…
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