Pretzel
Dev tools
notebook ai assistant
SHOW HN2024
269points
74comments
#262of 3,515 in 2024
Top 8%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open-source approach praised over closed forks
From 1 comment
This is a great implementation by your team + contributors. Simple but effective. And nice to see you’ve kept it open source instead of some other Show HN submissions where they…
TidbitsTornado on HN
Copilot-like features are useful in Jupyter
From 1 comment
Github Copilot is the most useful tool I've found in a long time and having that in Jupyter Notebooks is just awesome. I've been missing that for quite some time. Great work guys!
lschneider on HN
Objections
VSCode with Copilot or Cursor already covers this
From 3 comments
I don't really get the appeal of this, I'd just use vscode with Jupyter if I really wanted "ai" integration since I can then access the whole ecosystem of extensions. The idea…
chad1n on HNCodeium(https://codeium.com/) already supports this, along with VSCode jupyter notebook extensions. It has 400k downloads on the VSCode extension store. don't really see the…
widepeepo8 on HNhttps://www.cursor.com/ - an AI-first VS Code clone VS Code (and Cursor) has so nice Jupyter support that I find it much better to use it for my workflow, rather than using any…
stared on HN
jupyter-ai and other existing extensions already cover this
From 2 comments
Have y'all seen Jupyter AI? Seems to do the same but better (more features, more mature codebase, better UI/UX/DX) while being a JupyterLab extension…
f-lux on HNThere are many other Jupyter notebooks with extensive AI integration. These are less (or not at all) open source, but more mature in some ways, having been iterated on for over a…
williamstein on HN
Fork instead of extension is questioned
From 2 comments
Curious about the limitations that made you fork it instead of making an extension.
carreau on HNyour work is basically a Jupyter extension (https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai/tree/main/packages/pretzelai-extension). Why don't just create an extension like others in here…
trungld on HN
Installation hangs on default port 8888
From 1 comment
I installed it into my jupyter env and it runs fine on port 8889, but the default port 8888, it just sits waiting on the AI to generate a response.
downrightmike on HN
Requests
Support for local LLMs and Claude Sonnet 3.5
From 1 comment
Ramon here, the other cofounder of Pretzel! Quick update: Based on some early feedback, we're already working on adding support for local LLMs and Claude Sonnet 3.5. Happy to…
ramonverse on HN
Note-taking tool with AI for general notes
From 1 comment
These editors all focus on programming, does anybody have a recommendation for more general note-taking? I'd like to do things like organizing very rough notes, having them…
morsch on HN
Questions
Why fork Jupyter instead of building an extension
From 2 comments
Curious about the limitations that made you fork it instead of making an extension.
carreau on HNAre there technical reasons for the fork or could Pretzel have been implemented as a set of extensions?
mitjam on HN
Why Codestral for autocomplete
From 1 comment
Curious on why you went with Codestral for autocomplete, does it outperform other local models? How is the performance compared to GPT or Claude for autocomplete? Any plans to…
dakshgupta on HN
Alternatives named
VSCode with Copilot or Cursor
From 2 comments
https://www.cursor.com/ - an AI-first VS Code clone VS Code (and Cursor) has so nice Jupyter support that I find it much better to use it for my workflow, rather than using any…
stared on HNCodeium(https://codeium.com/) already supports this, along with VSCode jupyter notebook extensions. It has 400k downloads on the VSCode extension store. don't really see the…
widepeepo8 on HN
jupyter-ai
From 2 comments
There are many other Jupyter notebooks with extensive AI integration. These are less (or not at all) open source, but more mature in some ways, having been iterated on for over a…
williamstein on HNHave y'all seen Jupyter AI? Seems to do the same but better (more features, more mature codebase, better UI/UX/DX) while being a JupyterLab extension…
f-lux on HN
Deepnote
From 1 comment
There are many other Jupyter notebooks with extensive AI integration. These are less (or not at all) open source, but more mature in some ways, having been iterated on for over a…
williamstein on HN
Google Colab
From 1 comment
There are many other Jupyter notebooks with extensive AI integration. These are less (or not at all) open source, but more mature in some ways, having been iterated on for over a…
williamstein on HN
PyCharm with Copilot
From 2 comments
I just use PyCharm and Copilot plugin. Works like a charm.
renewiltord on HN> Am I missing any? DataSpell: https://www.jetbrains.com/dataspell
thehours on HN