The Claudette library is a "literate nbdev" project, meaning its source code is a rendered Jupyter Notebook that includes detailed explanations and demonstrations of how and why the code is written the way it is. This approach is intended to make the code more understandable to human readers, in line with Donald E. Knuth's philosophy of "literate programming". The source code also provides insights into how Claude and Anthropic’s API work.
Key takeaways:
- Anthropic has launched Claudette, a tool that makes the SDK for working with the Claude 3.5 Sonnet language model more convenient by automating many tasks.
- Claudette provides features such as a 'Chat' class for stateful dialogs, support for 'prefill' to guide Claude's responses, image support, and support for Claude’s new Tool Use API.
- Claudette can also use external tools by calling Python functions, allowing Claude to perform tasks such as arithmetic calculations or image analysis.
- The Claudette library is a 'literate nbdev' project, meaning its source code is a rendered Jupyter Notebook that includes detailed explanations and teaches how and why the code is written the way it is.