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Re: Gremllm

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Post by andreabergia » 

  from gremllm import Gremllm

  # Be sure to tell your gremllm what sort of thing it is
  counter = Gremllm('counter')
  counter.value = 5
  counter.increment()
  print(counter.value)  # 6?
  print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI?
I love this!

Re: Gremllm

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Post by SoftTalker »

andreabergia wrote: post #2

from gremllm import Gremllm # Be sure to tell your gremllm what sort of thing it is counter = Gremllm('counter') counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? I love this!

Awesome, now I don't have to write mocks for testing!

Re: Gremllm

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Post by awwaiid »

I was chatting with Simon Willison (who's LLM library I use to power gremllm) on Discord and he suggested D&D use-cases. Kinda works!!!

    >>> from gremllm import Gremllm
    >>> player = Gremllm('dungeon_game_player')
    >>> player.go_into_cave()
    'Player has entered the cave.'
    >>> player.look_around()
    {'location': 'cave', 'entered_cave_at': '2025-07-02T21:59:02.136960'}
    >>> player.pick_up_rock()
    'You picked up a rock.'
    >>> player.inventory()
    ['rock']
(further attempts at this have ... varying results ...)

Re: Gremllm

#6

Post by femto113 »

mark_undoio wrote: post #3

I am appalled and delighted by this. It feels like an AI cousin to the Python error steamroller ( https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy ). Whenever I see this sort of thing I think that there might be a non-evil application for it. But then I think ... where's the fun in that?

I share your feelings. What it most brings to mind for me is the infamous StackSort from the image alt text on XKCD comic 1185 (https://xkcd.com/1185/)

Re: Gremllm

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Post by Fraterkes »

awwaiid wrote: post #5

I was chatting with Simon Willison (who's LLM library I use to power gremllm) on Discord and he suggested D&D use-cases. Kinda works!!! >>> from gremllm import Gremllm >>> player = Gremllm('dungeon_game_player') >>> player.go_into_cave() 'Player has entered the cave.' >>> player.look_around() {'location': 'cave', 'entered_cave_at': '2025-07-02T21:59:02.136960'} >>> player.pick_up_rock() 'You picked up a rock.' >>> pl…

Just want to say that I'm not an ai guy at all, but this has made me more excited about it than anything in a while. Really cool! Did you also do the one where you put "spells" in your code?

Re: Gremllm

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Post by mpalmer »

Love it, I am here for exactly this sort of playful boundary nudging.

"Wet mode" is such a fantastically awful name. Definitely make me think twice about turning it on.

Re: Gremllm

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Post by jmsdnns »

awwaiid wrote: post #5

I was chatting with Simon Willison (who's LLM library I use to power gremllm) on Discord and he suggested D&D use-cases. Kinda works!!! >>> from gremllm import Gremllm >>> player = Gremllm('dungeon_game_player') >>> player.go_into_cave() 'Player has entered the cave.' >>> player.look_around() {'location': 'cave', 'entered_cave_at': '2025-07-02T21:59:02.136960'} >>> player.pick_up_rock() 'You picked up a rock.' >>> pl…

i helped Chris Callison-Burch design a class at upenn, called interactive fiction, which is a similar context to what Simon suggested. the real magic is that it reframes hallucinations as creative story telling. the usecase is SUPER fun if you imagine the LLM as a dungeon master telling a story that gets expanded over time.

the framework he and I built kept track of the game state over time and allowed saving and loading games as json. we could then send the full json to an LLM as part of the prompts to get it to react. the most neat part, imo, was when we realized we could have the LLM generate text for parts of the story, then analyze what it said to detect any items, locations, or characters not jn the game state, and then have it create json representations of the hallucinated objects that could be inserted into the game states. that sealed the deal for using hallucinations as creative story telling inside the context of a game.

i assure you the D&D context is very fun! the class website might give you more ideas too https://interactive-fiction-class.org/

i wasnt officially part of upenn at the time, so my name isnt listed on the site, but we wrote a paper about some of the things we did, such as this one, and you'll see me listed there https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ccb/publications/dagger.pdf

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