IPython is All You Need
10 points by ncoop57
10 points by ncoop57
Honestly pretty confused by this post. What does an LLM have to do with using IPython as a shell?
Edit: it hardly sounds like IPython is “all you need” if you also need an OpenAI API key.
this post is missing so much and adding too much all at the same time. Is this AI SLOP !?!?
The gist I get is enable %rehashx in python to get command aliases created from $PATH
but what if I change PATH or ya know, add a command to PATH after running %rehashx or source a file..
It does not behave like a shell at all this page is honestly too long for me to read since I got very little from its verbosity. Can anyone with more time explain what the main purpose of this article was?
It doesn’t read like AI slop to me.
The important part is 2/3 down the page. After printing a picture of a cat to the terminal using ipython (scroll until you see the cat), the next ipython input ":What do you see?" calls a multimodal LLM that interprets your ipython session and spits out that it sees a cat.
The technique on that page is an interesting way to interact with LLMs. Having a full Python interpreter available so you can mix and match precision (Python statements) and power (LLM queries) deserves a look.
If the author is reading this, putting the cat example at the top will help readers understand what makes your contribution unique. And condense the dialogue, or intersperse the dialogue throughout your ipython session.
what is the startup time of opening a new terminal? Did you chsh to ipython?