silverthorn

I think they're spiritually related, but my understanding is that Marvin actually invokes the LLM at runtime to execute an AI Function (which is why it can perform, e.g., sentiment analysis). Maccarone invokes the LLM to generate code during development.

Ha, I just want to clarify that the quoted text isn't actually from the README or something like that, I'm not quite that crazy.

But no real argument with the concern. An LLM will generate bugs, and that may be a reason this kind of thing never makes sense in practice (isn't that an argument against copilot, too, though?).

> You should be squeamish about running the code without reading it first, given that you're pair-programming with a bot.

It's funny, the first version of this project[0] let you do exactly that, e.g.,

  def main(path: str):
      #<<filenames = a list of filenames under path>>
  
      for fn in filenames:
          #<<size = size of fn in bytes>>
  
          print(fn, size)
  
  #<<use argparse and call main>>

and then run that program like any other Python script (using import magic):

  $ python -m examples.file_sizes /etc
  …
  /etc/wgetrc 4942
  /etc/nsswitch.conf 542
  /etc/adduser.conf 3028
  /etc/ethertypes 1816

But yeah, it never felt exactly practical. :)

[0] https://github.com/bsilverthorn/maccarone/tree/v0.1.3

Maccarone: AI-managed code blocks in Python github.com

181 silverthorn 3 years ago 70 comments

> I think there's a nascent industry in converting biomass into biochar and sequestering it

To expand on that, biochar seems to be the majority of carbon removal delivered commercially to date:

https://www.cdr.fyi/

Of course the entire CDR industry is nascent.

Bio-oil via pyrolysis is another option. Charm Industrial is trying to scale that up.

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