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Agentic Data Science in a Reproducible Marimo Notebook | Agents and Engineers Podcast

A conversation on the Agents and Engineers podcast about treating coding agents as collaborators: Marimo Pair, notebooks that outlive an agent's context window, and reproducible agentic data science.

A conversation with Dan on the Agents and Engineers podcast about what changes when a data scientist treats coding agents as collaborators in an exploratory workflow. Eric describes how quickly his own agentic data science setup became obsolete: a skill built around Markdown journals and generated plots gave way within weeks to Marimo Pair, where an agent works directly inside a live notebook. He uses Marimo notebooks for more than interactive analysis; they preserve debugging sessions beyond an agent's context window, give colleagues a shareable pre-read, and keep code, visualizations, and environment definitions together so the whole workflow stays reproducible.