I notice that the python community seems to love workbooks/notebooks but I have to say as a non-python dev, they drive me up the wall. I just want to deal with “regular” code and not have an entire gui environment with code and text intermingling somewhere in the cloud.

I think AI really needs a de-pythoning in general.

Checkout Clerk from the Clojure community [0]. Presumably it would be possible to extend a new language like Mojo (Python-superset) to support that kind of dev workflow to AI.

[0] https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk