If you’ve come across Pydantic recently, it was probably in the context of LLM agents. Pydantic didn’t suddenly become useful because of agents. It's been solving data validation problems in Python for years. It can efficiently solve data problems that I was hacking around for years with if-else loops as a bioinformatician. It's one of the most powerful tools for handling the messy, complex data that dominates our field.  At its core, Pydantic is a Python library for data val

You’re several minutes into a back-and-forth with an LLM chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude etc.), trying to get a clear answer about interpreting some results. But, it keeps circling back to the same generic explanation. The AI seems confused and continues to apologize and you're frustrated! I've been there. We've all been there. These tools don't work like Google. When you type a question into Google, it finds all relevant existing information. It retrieves information and you can ch