martosaur
Handwave - just handwave any problem with LLM
Handwave is a thin wrapper around InstructorLite that makes it simpler to use vague handwaving in your apps.
It comes with 3 built-in providers (Handwave.OpenAI, Handwave.Claude and Handwave.Gemini) and behaviour to define your own.
Here’s its whole API surface:
- Use
llm_ifwhen you can’t come up with a regularif:
import Handwave.OpenAI
llm_if user_email, "looks suspicious?" do
{:error, :blocked}
else
create_user(user_email)
end
- Use
llm_rewritewhen you just need thatterm() -> 🧠🪄✨ -> stringfunction:
iex> llm_rewrite(
%Req.Response{status: 401, body: "session token expired"},
"Tell user what to do without technical details"
)
"Your session has expired. Please log in again to continue."
- Use
llm_routewhen you want LLM to just figure out what to do:
import Handwave.OpenAI
@impl Oban.Worker
def process(job) do
# do things
catch
kind, error ->
formatted = Exception.format(kind, error, __STACKTRACE__)
formatted
|> llm_route([:snooze, :cancel, :error], "Snooze if it makes sense to try later, cancel if it's a lost cause, otherwise just error")
|> case do
:snooze -> {:snooze, 60}
:cancel -> {:cancel, error}
_ -> {:error, formatted}
end
end
Have fun.
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martosaur
That were exactly my thoughts that led me to making this package, but ultimately, I came to realization that this is a useful library (that’s why I released it). Structured outputs for LLMs enable embedding small bits of intelligence in conventional application code and at this point I can’t help but admit that sometimes this is useful. Admittedly, examples in the readme are silly, because they have to be small and because I chose a playful tone for the library as a way to cope with new reality. But in real life I use this type of stuff to determine, for example, if user wants to do a “broad” search or “focused” one and trigger different search pipeline based on perceived intent.
I agree that this can be an absolutely cursed way to do things in the wrong hands. I’m not too worried though as it seems like nobody it writing code by hand these days and Claude won’t use this library.
FlyingNoodle
llm_if← this is a joke right? Are we really at that point?DaAnalyst
I actually like this, specially the
llm_rewrite.llm_ifcould be useful for non- too-deterministic cases, such as branching in video games.