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Re:Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the bro... by linwangg on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:41PM (#43201127)
This looks interesting! How does Probly handle complex Pandas operations compared to something like Deepnote or Jupyter AI plugins? Does it support custom Python scripts, or is it more of a prompt-based solution?
Re:Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the bro... by tobiadefami on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:35AM (#43206065)
Great question,

Unlike Jupyter or Deepnote where you write code directly, Probly is primarily prompt-based - you describe what analysis you want in natural language, and the AI generates and executes the appropriate Python code behind the scenes using Pyodide.

The key difference has to be that Probly runs python entirely in your browser using WASM, while jupyter/Deepnote run code on servers.

Re:Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the bro... by mfdupuis on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:52AM (#43207727)
Disclosure, I'm a founder in the data space[1]

Have you thought about how you would handle much larger datasets? Or is the idea that since this is a spreadsheet, the 10M cell limit is plenty sufficient?

I find WASM really interesting, but I can't wrap my head around how this scales in the enterprise. But I figure it probably just comes down to the use cases and personas you're targeting.

[1] https://www.fabi.ai/

Re:Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the bro... by revenga99 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:18AM (#43216227)
I am also very deeply invested in this question. It seems like the goto path for huge large data sets is text to sql (clickhouse, snowflake) etc. But all these juicy python data science libraries require code execution based on off the much small data payloads from the sql results. Feel free to reach out, what you are trying to achieve seems very similar to what I am trying to do in a completely different industry/usecase.
Re:Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the bro... by linwangg on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:47AM (#43206192)
That’s an interesting approach! Running Python entirely in the browser via WASM could have some big advantages—especially for privacy, portability, and offline use.