Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair
Episode description
How do you add agent skills to your data science workflow? How can a coding agent assist with data wrangling and research? This week on the show, Trevor Manz from marimo joins us to discuss marimo pair.
Trevor is a founding engineer at marimo, where he’s been working on integrating LLM tools with marimo. We discuss the balancing act of building a skill and determining how to give an agent access to all the variables in a notebook. He shares how they built a specialized reactive REPL that eliminates hidden state and allows the agent to continue constructing a reproducible Python program.
We dig into installing and getting started with marimo pair. Trevor also covers several of the tasks an agent can tackle in a data science workflow.
Video Course Spotlight: Getting Started With marimo Notebooks
Discover how marimo notebook simplifies coding with reactive updates, UI elements, and sandboxing for safe, sharable notebooks.
Topics:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:02:26 – Trevor’s role at marimo
- 00:03:08 – Current AI tools in marimo
- 00:06:26 – Describing marimo notebooks
- 00:10:11 – What is marimo pair?
- 00:18:49 – Building an agent skill
- 00:27:34 – Setup & installation
- 00:31:16 – Video Course Spotlight
- 00:32:42 – Examples of EDA and data wrangling
- 00:45:46 – Experimenting inside of a notebook
- 00:50:40 – Managing context
- 00:53:25 – Accessing additional libraries
- 00:57:16 – Recent tools and updates from the marimo community
- 00:59:31 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
- 01:01:10 – What do you want to learn next?
- 01:02:26 – How can people follow your work online?
- 01:03:13 – Thanks and goodbye
Show Links:
- Introducing marimo pair - marimo
- marimo-pair: Drop agents inside running marimo notebook sessions
- Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents - Hacker News
- Episode #230: marimo: Reactive Notebooks and Deployable Web Apps in Python
- marimo Pair - YouTube
- We gave Claude Access to All Python Variables - YouTube
- Using the marimo editor’s AI features - marimo
- ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.
- molab - marimo
- marimo: A Reactive, Reproducible Notebook – Real Python
- Investigating Quasar Data With Polars and Interactive marimo Notebooks – Real Python
- Blog - marimo
- Trevor Manz - LinkedIn
- trevor manz (@manzt.sh) — Bluesky
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