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Albumentations in Geospatial: Who Actually Uses It

Albumentations in Geospatial: Who Actually Uses It

8 min readBy Vladimir Iglovikov

Reproducible audit of who uses Albumentations in the satellite / remote-sensing ecosystem: 5 OSS geo libraries (raster-vision, solaris, TerraTorch, NASA/IBM Prithvi, GeoSeg) depend on it, 44 public repos across 19 named geo organizations import it (NASA, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, DLR, JPL, Satellogic, Development Seed, Allen AI, Radiant Earth, Global Fishing Watch, World Resources Institute), and 382 geospatial papers cite it.

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OpenAI's Support Is an AI. And It Feels Two Generations Behind Their Own Models.

OpenAI's Support Is an AI. And It Feels Two Generations Behind Their Own Models.

14 min readBy Vladimir Iglovikov

I applied to the Codex Open Source Fund for the Albumentations ecosystem, got an explicit approval email, hit an activation error, and opened a support ticket. The reply pattern made one thing clear: support at OpenAI is handled by an AI agent, and the agent reads like a 2021-era model — generic, no per-account verification, the same template across four rounds.

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