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scolvin

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    This guy has nice hair.

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    Comment #46920522

    Please report any panics, we'll fix them!

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    Comment #46920483

    No one is going to let an LLM get prompted by end users to write python code I just run on my server, there's no real debate on that.

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    Comment #46920421

    As discussed on twitter, v8 shows that's not true. But to be clear, we're not even targeting the same "computer use" use case I think e2b, daytona, cloudflare, modal, fly.io, deno,…

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    Comment #46920396

    Can't be sure where this might end, but the primary goal is to enable codemode/programmatic tool calling, using the external function call mechanism for anything more complicated. …

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    Comment #46920046

    this is pretty performant for short scripts if you measure time "from code to rust" which can be as low as 1us. Of course it's slow for complex numerical calculations, but that's t…

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    Comment #46666646

    ROFL. I clearly didn't build pydantic "to take VC money" - I maintained Pydantic for 5 years before deciding to take VC money. I wanted to build logfire and I didn't want to compet…

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    Comment #46659617

    We have a SaaS platform (Pydantic Logfire - General and AI observability), and we raised our Series A from Sequoia. For good or bad, I think we're pretty "SaaS/vc/etc." already.

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    Comment #46349018

    Correction, logging used to suck - now it's fixed https://pydantic.dev/logfire :-)

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    Comment #44740046

    Pydantic creator here - I kind of agree with the article. I (obviously very biased) use Pydantic a fair bit, but there are places where it's the wrong tool and I use dataclasses, t…

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    Pydantic author here. We have plans for an improvement to pydantic where JSON is parsed iteratively, which will make way for reading a file as we parse it. Details in https://githu…

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    Comment #42349018

    See https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/issues/112 people have tried quite a few models. Llama3.2 worked well and used <2gb ram

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    Comment #42299727

    Interesting, but this doesn't support multiple tools with different arguments, or an arbitrary number of steps in the conversation. If you add that, you basically get PydanticAI.

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    Comment #41725746

    Thank you so much!

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