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title: "💭 Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and ..."
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This is really interesting, the lazy uv scripts are really becoming quite appealing, especially for something like this to just pop out of an llm ready to run.  The article features several examples of these one-shot prompt ideas that I suggest you give a try, and a prompt for creating them.

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