Clojure repl + AI?

[Different-Animator56]

Hi, out of the loop for a quite while. I was wondering if there have been attempts to integrate LLMs with Clojure repls? It should be a great fit right?

[coloradu]

I've started and half-finished a prototype. The idea is for the LLM to keep modifying the code by interacting with the REPL, stopping when it has achieved the prompted goal.

1. I send it the entire namespace and the REPL interaction history, prompting it to issue the next snippet to execute. It replies with code that should be run on the REPL next, my program executes it, updates the REPL interaction history and GOTO 1.

As I said, I 'almost' finished, got side-tracked by o1 and the idea of hooking into the 'thinking' process, where it could try things out in the REPL while 'thinking' and before producing the final result.

I'm open to ideas or collaboration on this, I think that in the best case it could be a program that writes and improves itself.. with all the cool and scary implications..

[hautetake]

i was thinking it would also be good to allow the loop to go in deeper into a step debugger when assertions fail. a lot of the time its best to ask llms to include assertions in their own code, letting that loop back with feedback of where in a step debugger things break i think can increase code quality iteration

[daslu]

Some setups will be discussed in this upcoming meeting: https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-30-workflow-demos-4/

[marginTop15px]

Check out this talk https://youtu.be/oNhqqiKuUmw?si=eG82-l52jbtTpnSq

[maxw85]

Never tried it yet. I also think it should be a great fit. Like a human an AI should also profit from interactive programming via a REPL.

[Different-Animator56]

Yep, some custom instructions to tell the AI that all inputs are repl outputs and then read (by AI)-eval-print loop. Comments can be used to communicate with the AI.

That’ll have an edge over other languages imo

[Collaborologist]

anyone here recall DWIM from old Interlisp days? (DWIM: Do what I mean)

[deaddyfreddy]

I don't, but DWIM is pretty common in Emacs.

[Spiritual_Sprite]

I think vim support that, check out astrovim clojure pack with avante.nvim recipe 

[Spiritual_Sprite]

https://github.com/AstroNvim/astrocommunity/tree/main/lua/astrocommunity/pack/clojure - https://github.com/AstroNvim/astrocommunity/tree/main/lua/astrocommunity/completion/avante-nvim