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It's something, I think, missing from smolagents ecosystem anyway!
I got a WebAssembly build of this working and fired up a web playground for trying it out: https://simonw.github.io/research/monty-wasm-pyodide/demo.ht... It doesn't have class support yet! But it doesn't matter, because LLMs that try to use a class will get an error message and rewrite their code to not use classes instead. Notes on how I got the WASM build working here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic…
I really don't understand the use-case here. My models are writing code all day in 3/4 different languages, why would I want to: a) Restrict them to Python b) Restrict them to a cutdown, less-useful version of Python? My models write me Typescript and C# and Python all day with zero issues. Why do I need this?
This feels like the time I was a Mercurial user before I moved to Git. Everyone was using git for reasons to me that seemed bandwagon-y, when Mercurial just had such a better UX and mental model to me. Now, everyone is writing agent `exec`s in Python, when I think TypeScript/JS is far better suited for the job (it was always fast + secure, not to mention more reliable and information dense b/c of typing). But I think…
Can we please make as little js as possible? Why would one drag this god forsaken abomination on server-side is beyond me. Even effing C# nowdays can be run in script-like manner from a single file. — Even the latest Codex UI app is Electron. The one that is supposed to write itself with AI wonders but couldn’t manage native swiftui, winui, and qt or whatever is on linux this days.
When you put it like that I can see why people end up with electron!
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TBF is the Python ecosystem any different? None and dict everywhere, requirements.txt without pinned versions... I'm not complaining either, as I wouldn't expect a unified typed experience in ecosystems where multiple competing type checkers and package managers have been introduced gradually. How could any library from the python3.4 era foresee dataclass es or the typing module? Such changes take time, and I favor a…
It was better because it had no silent errors, like 1+”1”. Far from perfect, the fact it raised exceptions and enforced the philosophy of “don’t ask for permission but forgiveness” makes the difference. IMHO It’s irrelevant it has a slightly better typesystem and runtime but that’s totally irrelevant nowadays. With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles. Now we all should be looking towards fa…
How I finally was able to make a large Rust project without having to sacrifice my free time to really fully understand Rust. I have read through the Rust book several times but I never have time to fully “practice” Rust, I was able to say screw it and built my own Rust software using Claude Code.
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Can we please make as little js as possible? Why would one drag this god forsaken abomination on server-side is beyond me. Even effing C# nowdays can be run in script-like manner from a single file. — Even the latest Codex UI app is Electron. The one that is supposed to write itself with AI wonders but couldn’t manage native swiftui, winui, and qt or whatever is on linux this days.
I would say the same about Python, a language that has clearly got far too big for its boots.
The Man Who Listens to Horses (1997) is an excellent book by Monty Roberts about learning the language of horses and observing and listening to animals: https://www.biblio.com/search.php?stage=1&title=The+Man+Who+...
Video demonstration of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtTz9GtAT4
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Docker and other container runners allow it. https://containers.dev/ allows it too. https://github.com/microsoft/litebox might somehow allow it too if a tool can be built on top of it, but there is no documentation.
Every time I use Docker as a sandbox people warn me to watch out for "container escapes". I trust Firecracker more because it was built by AWS specifically to sandbox Lambdas, but it doesn't work on macOS and is pretty fiddly to run on Linux.
Gleaned from https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/blob/0c408e156b12dd... and https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/tree/0c408e156b12dd...
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It was better because it had no silent errors, like 1+”1”. Far from perfect, the fact it raised exceptions and enforced the philosophy of “don’t ask for permission but forgiveness” makes the difference. IMHO It’s irrelevant it has a slightly better typesystem and runtime but that’s totally irrelevant nowadays. With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles. Now we all should be looking towards fa…
> With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles. How I finally was able to make a large Rust project without having to sacrifice my free time to really fully understand Rust. I have read through the Rust book several times but I never have time to fully “practice” Rust, I was able to say screw it and built my own Rust software using Claude Code.
Doesn't the agent already have bash though? My current security model is to give it a separate Linux user. So it can blow itself up and... I think that's about it?
> Doesn't the agent already have bash though? You don't have to give it bash, depending on your tools at least. > So it can blow itself up and... I think that's about it? And exfiltrate data via the Internet, fill up disk space...
I saw at least some interest in a better security model where for example instead of giving it the API keys, there's a broker that rewrites the curl requests and injects keys so the agent doesn't see them.
I'm not sure what that looks like for your emails or web content though, since using placeholders there would defeat the purpose.