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by trymamboapp 41 days ago
"AI saves analysis as notebooks" is fighting the wrong fight ig. The reproducibility issue with notebooks isn't the format. it's out-of-order cell execution and silent kernel state

llm generation makes that worse: the model has no memory of what state existed when it wrote cell 7, and neither does the user.

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User is not touching notebook at all, user just ask questions in natural language, and AI is using Python to compute answer, the ipynb notebook format is used to save the conversation.