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Opinion / analysisAgents & Tool Use · Data & Datasets1 source · Oct 10, 2026

Are .ipynb notebooks already outdated in the agentic era? [D]

Back then, Jupyter Notebooks were a perfect fit for the classical DS pipeline: EDA -> data prep -> fit -> eval -> tune -> save model artefact and notebook.

Key points

  • I am a data scientist who started working in the industry before the LLM revolution.
  • Especially in classical ML applications, where you still need to explore data, run experiments, check different hypotheses and decide what to do next based on the results.
  • But why do we still need to organise the whole workflow around code cells?
  • Are ipynbs still good enough, or are we just used to working this way?

Sources (1)

  • [1]Are .ipynb notebooks already outdated in the agentic era? [D]
    r/MachineLearning (top, daily) · Oct 10, 10:51 AM
    Back then, Jupyter Notebooks were a perfect fit for the classical DS pipeline: EDA -> data prep -> fit -> eval -> tune -> save model artefact and notebook.
    I am a data scientist who started working in the industry before the LLM revolution.

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