Tips for Generating Entire Marimo Notebooks with LLMs?

[cannin]

LLMs are great for generating Python scripts. How to make them do entire notebooks in the Marimo format? Current attempts with Claude 3.7 seem to putting named functions in @app.cell rather than the _() ones.

[dmadisetti]

You can try the markdown format which requires a little less cognitive load: https://docs.marimo.io/guides/editor_features/watching#as-markdown

We may share a version of our prompt (sub here if we update: #4982)
But it's basically:

• Do not redefine variables
• Use functions where possible
• Output on the last line
• No cycles
• Please