Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair

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.

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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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