I enjoyed the heck out of this conversation between Hugo Browne-Anderson and Jason Liu on Hugo’s podcast, Vanishing Gradients. It took me a while to realize that Jason is the “Pydantic is all You Need” guy. I’ll comment on that discussion later. What’s really interesting here is that Jason has applied background in using LLMs in anger to create production systems. There’s repeated back and forth…
I absolutely didn’t grok Pydantic the first time I had a coworker recommend using it. The big impedance mismatch was that I don’t use a lot of objects in my Python code. Most of my workflows are data transforms that look like: 1. suck data into a data frame 1. do some transforms on that data 1. maybe join to other data 1. get fancy and apply a function to a column in that dataframe 1. dump the…