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- IME "real data work" doesn't involve notebooks.by jiggunjer
- This is one shot with Claude Code. What’s the moat?by estetlinus
- "AI saves analysis as notebooks" is fighting the wrong fight ig. The reproducibility issue with notebooks isn't the format. it's out-of-order cell execution and silent kernel state
llm generation makes that worse: the model has no memory of what state existed when it wrote cell 7, and neither does the user.
by trymamboapp - Really cool. If somebody doesn't want to adopt a new platform, take a look at open source Jupyter MCP Server[1]. Once integrated with Claude, it can execute code on the live notebook kernel.
I just let Claude write notebooks, run top to bottom, debug & fix errors & only ping me when everything is working.
by amirathi - This is one of those product areas I would call high-risk without a human in the loop. So I am glad you kept a person in the loop. It's really easy to lose tons of money making decisions based on bad statistics or models. Anyone remember how much money zillow lost because of automatic time series models?
I do have concerns about the workflow. Data people aren't usually the best programmers. Models hallucinate and make mistakes sometimes subtle sometimes not. Can you think of a way to prevent data scientists from having to be expert code reviewers? I feel like taking away the code gives them the chance to find and fix mistakes in their reasoning but I have no evidence for that.
- How does this compare to open source Deepnote[0]? We use the cloud version (BYOC) at my previous company to replace self-hosted Jupyter notebooks, and it's pretty great.by hasyimibhar
- Notebooks as the output format is funny because notebooks are famously bad for reproducibility. Out of order execution, hidden state, etc. You're solving "chat isn't reproducible" with a format that also isn't reallyby MSaiRam10