Give it a shot, it's not in beta. It's much more powerful and fun to use than `--watch`. Works best with frontier models but is compatible with open source / local models too. If you have feedback please let me know!
I do that a decent chunk of the time yeah especially for learning. I also have a bunch of marimo notebooks that double as clis and they're lovely.
But sometimes I want to do something too specific or high fidelity and it's just easier to get the clanker to write typescript and make a webpage/components.
I was interested in marimo, but I became less interested when I realized that they traded off being able to assign to a variable more than once in order to allow out-of-order execution of cells.
I mean as a Jupyter user, I typically do both and just keep track of what I'm doing in my head (like a repl with many snippets I can run any time), but if I wanted to make it more predictable, I would definitely give up out-of-order execution first.
My biggest problem with Jupyter is hidden state. You have no idea what order the cells executed in and how many times to get to the current state. Pluto.jl and Marimo solve that by using reactivity to make state transparent. WYSIWYG.
I have also been thoroughly impressed how Marimo has engaged with AI agents. marimo-pair is fantastic.
However my use of it has decreased a little with how easily I can conjure disposable frontends with agents to explore one off things.
I have been using the --watch flag to let my agent play with the notebook as I use it already.
But sometimes I want to do something too specific or high fidelity and it's just easier to get the clanker to write typescript and make a webpage/components.
I mean as a Jupyter user, I typically do both and just keep track of what I'm doing in my head (like a repl with many snippets I can run any time), but if I wanted to make it more predictable, I would definitely give up out-of-order execution first.
Being able to run Jupyter cells independently is a feature until it’s not.
I’d say for most of my one-off work, it’s fine. But for stuff I want to share it’s not.
It sounds like you're commenting about this from experience - if you'd like to share some of that, of course that would be welcome.
I have also been thoroughly impressed how Marimo has engaged with AI agents. marimo-pair is fantastic.