January 26, 2026

#467 Toads in my AI

31 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

GreyNoise IP Check

tprof: a targeting profiler

TOAD is out

Extras

Joke

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About the show

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The Complete pytest Course

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Michael #1: GreyNoise IP Check

GreyNoise watches the internet's background radiation—the constant storm of scanners, bots, and probes hitting every IP address on Earth.

Is your computer sending out bot or other bad-actor traffic? What about the myriad of devices and IoT things on your local IP?

Heads up: If your IP has recently changed, it might not be you (false positive).

Brian #2: tprof: a targeting profiler

Adam Johnson

Intro blog post: Python: introducing tprof, a targeting profiler

Michael #3: TOAD is out

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

Front-end for AI tools such as OpenHands, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and many more.

Better TUI experience (e.g. @ for file context uses fuzzy search and dropdowns)

Better prompt input (mouse, keyboard, even colored code and markdown blocks)

Terminal within terminals (for TUI support)

Brian #4: FastAPI adds Contribution Guidelines around AI usage

Docs commit: Add contribution instructions about LLM generated code and comments and automated tools for PRs

Docs section: Development - Contributing : Automated Code and AI

Great inspiration and example of how to deal with this for popular open source projects

“If the human effort put in a PR, e.g. writing LLM prompts, is less than the effort we would need to put to review it, please don't submit the PR.”

With sections on

Closing Automated and AI PRs

Human Effort Denial of Service

Use Tools Wisely

Extras

Brian:

Apparently Digg is back and there’s a Python Community there

Why light-weight websites may one day save your life - Marijke LuttekesHome

Michael:

Blog posts about Talk Python AI Integrations

Announcing Talk Python AI Integrations on Talk Python’s Blog

Blocking AI crawlers might be a bad idea on Michael’s Blog

Already using the compile flag for faster app startup on the containers:

RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache uv pip install --compile-bytecode --python /venv/bin/python

I think it’s speeding startup by about 1s / container.

Biggest prompt yet? 72 pages, 11, 000

Joke: A date

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January 26, 2026

#467 Toads in my AI

31 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

GreyNoise IP Check

tprof: a targeting profiler

TOAD is out

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

Our courses at Talk Python Training

The Complete pytest Course

Patreon Supporters

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too.

Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Michael #1: GreyNoise IP Check

GreyNoise watches the internet's background radiation—the constant storm of scanners, bots, and probes hitting every IP address on Earth.

Is your computer sending out bot or other bad-actor traffic? What about the myriad of devices and IoT things on your local IP?

Heads up: If your IP has recently changed, it might not be you (false positive).

Brian #2: tprof: a targeting profiler

Adam Johnson

Intro blog post: Python: introducing tprof, a targeting profiler

Michael #3: TOAD is out

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

Front-end for AI tools such as OpenHands, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and many more.

Better TUI experience (e.g. @ for file context uses fuzzy search and dropdowns)

Better prompt input (mouse, keyboard, even colored code and markdown blocks)

Terminal within terminals (for TUI support)

Brian #4: FastAPI adds Contribution Guidelines around AI usage

Docs commit: Add contribution instructions about LLM generated code and comments and automated tools for PRs

Docs section: Development - Contributing : Automated Code and AI

Great inspiration and example of how to deal with this for popular open source projects

“If the human effort put in a PR, e.g. writing LLM prompts, is less than the effort we would need to put to review it, please don't submit the PR.”

With sections on

Closing Automated and AI PRs

Human Effort Denial of Service

Use Tools Wisely

Extras

Brian:

Apparently Digg is back and there’s a Python Community there

Why light-weight websites may one day save your life - Marijke LuttekesHome

Michael:

Blog posts about Talk Python AI Integrations

Announcing Talk Python AI Integrations on Talk Python’s Blog

Blocking AI crawlers might be a bad idea on Michael’s Blog