I got tired of print(x.shape) so I built runtime type hints for Python
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Description
As a beginner learning to build ML models, I found it annoying to have to keep printing tensor shapes every other line, having to step through the debugger to check where did I mess up the shapes again. So I built Trickle, it takes the data that flows through your code, caches the types and display them inline (as if you have type annotations). The idea is: "Let types trickle from runtime into your IDE". You get types in Python without having the write them manually. It works by
Discovered
March 18, 2026
Added to Database
March 19, 2026
Notes
Discovered via hackernews search; 3 AI keyword matches