Tidy design principles
Hadley WickhamSemi-regular discussions of best practices of programming in R
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Illustrating my slides with AI
Since we’re on the topic of talks, I wanted to describe my process for generating the illustrations I use for my slides. Two years ago I primarily used royalty-free stock photography, but now I use images generated by AI (first via ChatGPT...
y code when ai?
I’ve given this talk on my feelings about AI and coding quite a few times (mostly recently for an ASA webinar), and I’ve decided I need to stop giving it and do something new. So to force myself to do that I’ve written it up for you all 🙂....
Auto mode knows it's dangerous (and does it anyway)
This week I discovered that auto mode isn’t quite as safe as I thought. I’ve been thinking about how we tell people to install air and other command line tools. We use the standard practice, which is to tell you to run a command that downlo...
Help! My coding agent can run code
Last week we talked briefly about how you can make tools safer when they’re tightly scoped. This week I’m going to discuss why this approach doesn’t generalise and what you can do instead.
Tightly scoped tools
Last week we introduced t...
A coding agent is six functions in a trenchcoat
Coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex have taken the software engineering field by storm. Since November 2025 they have radically changed the practice of software development for many programmers (including me), and in this week...
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