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magentic
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jackmpcollins / magentic

magentic

Seamlessly integrate LLMs as Python functions

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Seamlessly integrate LLMs as Python functions

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-26 16:31:16 UTC to 2024-12-13 16:50:46 UTC.

02462023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 commentsSep 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 20242024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsDec 2024

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Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC505
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Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

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If you are using Python, check out the package I've been building, magentic https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic It supports structured outputs and streaming, and aims to avoid making unnecessary abstractions (but might require some more understanding of LLM patterns as a result). Also recently released is pydantic-ai, which is also based around pydantic / structured outputs, though works at level of "agents". https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai
In Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software
Looks quite like magentic [0] that I've been building, though broader in scope? I'm (clearly) a huge advocate of pydantic, structured outputs, and keeping control flow in python code (rather than inside abstractions / "chains") as much as possible, so it's great to see those values here too! I'd be interested to hear what you consider in vs out of scope for mirascope and the long-term vision. Also would be cool for one of us to do a mirascope vs magentic comparison blog post. [0] https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic
In Show HN: We're tired of LangChain and you are too, so we built Mirascope
Is AdalFlow also focused on automated prompt optimization or is it broader in scope? It looks like there are also some features around evaluation. I'd be really interested to see a comparison between AdalFlow, DSPy [0], LangChain [1] and magentic [2] (package I've created, narrower in scope). [0] https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy [1] https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain [2] https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic
In Show HN: AdalFlow: The library to build and auto-optimize any LLM task pipeline
I'm building magentic https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic which has basically this syntax, though it queries the LLM to generate the answer rather than writing + running code. from magentic import prompt from pydantic import BaseModel class Superhero(BaseModel): name: str age: int power: str enemies: list[str] @prompt("Create a Superhero named {name}.") def create_superhero(name: str) -> Superhero: ... I do have plans to also solve the case you're talking about of generating code once and executing that each time.
In I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
Does the dashboard/UI support traces? I would love a tool in which to view opentelemetry traces, that can neatly display full prompt and response for the spans that represent LLM queries. I'm planning to add opentelemetry instrumentation to magentic [1] and looking for a UI that is easy to run locally that makes it easy to see what an agent is doing (via OTEL traces). I have more of my thoughts on the github issue: https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic/issues/136 [1] https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic
In Show HN: OpenLIT – Open-Source LLM Observability with OpenTelemetry

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