I think repl driven development with access to native code could be a magic formula for agent engineering. No restarting, no re-compiling. Plus with persistent, immutable data structures you can iterate with many threads in parallel while maintaining sanity.
jwr 3 hours ago [-]
It is. I'm amazed at how quickly agents can work with my Clojure code base and try things out. They make great use of the REPL.
tikotus 2 hours ago [-]
Can it already reliably close parens? I was disappointed some time ago, but sounds like it's ready for a new go...?
jwr 2 hours ago [-]
This was a problem with early models, I would say more than a year ago, and even then, this problem was solved completely by using the clojure-mcp tools for editing.
Today you don't even need to use clojure-mcp for balanced editing. The models do a perfectly fine job.
tikotus 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks! Yeah, it was probably over a year ago that I tried it. Just the thought of a statistical program coding lisp while picking the number of closing parens based on a hunch made me shiver.
delegate 1 hours ago [-]
I'm amazed by such questions, really.
This was true with gpt-3.5, but things have moved on, dude !
It's like asking 'do movies have sound now?'.
The answer is Yes, not just sound, but also color !
s_Hogg 6 hours ago [-]
The first thing that comes to mind with no restarts or recompiling is the mangled variables you get in Jupiter if you're mucking around trying to get a prototype going and forget which cells have been run. I can definitely see agents having a problem with that. I would just try to make compilation fast if possible
kianN 4 hours ago [-]
Immutability and stateless separate the nrepl from jupyter. Clojure is not strictly functional but it tends to be the most straightforward way to do most tasks in the language.
chr15m 4 hours ago [-]
People who are already using LLMs to drive Clojure REPLs say it works well (see #ai-driven-development on the Clojure Slack). I don't think forgetting which cells have been run is a problem with the described set up.
pjmlp 2 hours ago [-]
Welcome to the previous AI Summer with Lisp and Prolog environments, :)
Pity that the new Summer got to ride an interpreted language, with bindings to native libraries instead.
alper 45 minutes ago [-]
Is this like Janet?
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5 hours ago [-]
Rendered at 10:19:21 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Today you don't even need to use clojure-mcp for balanced editing. The models do a perfectly fine job.
This was true with gpt-3.5, but things have moved on, dude !
It's like asking 'do movies have sound now?'. The answer is Yes, not just sound, but also color !
Pity that the new Summer got to ride an interpreted language, with bindings to native libraries instead.