Using Gemini 3 to investigate improving pylint

[Edward K. Ream]

Leo issue #4472 is a hobby project.

I have just asked Gemini 3 to critique my idea and design. This gemini3 thread is the result. It is way more detailed, thoughtful, and knowledgeable than my initial musings.

This sentence captures my initial vague idea exactly:

Your proposal essentially transforms Pylint from an Inference Engine (which is slow and      guess-prone) into a Logic Validator (which is fast and deterministic).

I'm not sure what to do with all this insight, but I am profoundly impressed with Gemini 3. I might ask the pylint devs for their comments. But first, I must provide examples where pylint has failed to detect real errors in Leo's code base. Such errors have been fairly common in the past.

Edward

[Thomas Passin]

That transcript certainly impresses me! Are you using a paid version of Gemini?  So far I'm still using free chatbot versions.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

That transcript certainly impresses me! Are you using a paid version of Gemini?

I'm using the paid version. And I use the slower "thinking" version. So responses can take 20 seconds or longer. BTW, here is the link to the entire conversation.

And here is the link to the entire conversation about half clones. I think a few more improvements can be made. Check #4478 for the latest developments.

Edward