#541: Monty - Python in Rust for AI
Talk Python To Me
Michael Kennedy
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When LLM's write code to accomplish a task, that code has to actually run somewhere. |
| 0:05.1 | And right now, the options aren't great. |
| 0:07.7 | You can spin up a sandbox container and you're paying the full second of cold start overhead, |
| 0:12.7 | plus the complexity of another service. |
| 0:15.0 | Let the LLM loose on your actual machine, and well, you better keep an eye on it. |
| 0:20.1 | On this episode, I sit down with Samuel Colvin, the creator of Pidentic now at 10 billion |
| 0:24.7 | downloads, to explore Monty, a Python interpreter written from scratch in Rust, purpose-built |
| 0:31.2 | to run LLM generated code. |
| 0:33.5 | It starts in microseconds, is completely sandboxed by design, and can even serialize its entire state to a database and resume later. |
| 0:42.1 | We dig into why this deliberately limited interpreter might be exactly what the AI agent error needs. |
| 0:48.7 | This is Talk Python to Me. |
| 0:49.9 | Episode 541 recorded February 17th, 20206. |
| 0:55.0 | Talk Python to me, yeah, we ready to roll. |
| 0:58.0 | Upgrading the code, no fear of getting old. |
| 1:01.0 | They sink in the air. |
| 1:02.0 | New frameworks in sight, geeky rap on deck. |
| 1:05.0 | Quark crew, it's time to unite. |
| 1:07.0 | We started in pyramid, cruising old school lanes, had that stable base. Yes, sir. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to Talk Python, a me, the number one Python podcast for developers and data scientists. |
| 1:16.7 | This is your host, Michael Kennedy. I'm a PSF fellow who's been coding for over 25 years. |
| 1:22.6 | Let's connect on social media. You'll find me and Talk Python on Macedon, Blue Sky, and X. The social links are all |
| 1:28.6 | in your show notes. You can find over 10 years of past episodes at Talkbython.fm. And if you |
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