Must read. How Price could so misunderstand Drucker is well beyond me, thankfully Henry is on the case

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

In the last year, @posit.co has released one agent called Positron Assistant and another called Posit Assistant, which is kinda confusing. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I sat down to talk about how these agents compare and where they're headed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9P2...

Gemma 4 is now available for Posit AI subscribers! We've priced the model at a tenth of the per-token cost of Claude Sonnet, and are really impressed with its performance for quick data analysis tasks. posit.co/blog/gemma-4...

We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

I've been watching Nicola Rennie make cool TidyTuesday contributions for YEARS. It's gonna be such a privilege to get a peek inside her workflow (+ her tools & templates!) tomorrow at the DS Lab 🥹❤️ May 12 12PM ET To hang out, chat w/ data pals, & see Nicola's brain work, register here: pos.it/dslab

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and it is chock full of exciting stuff! 🤩 Check out the new Packages pane, inline output for Quarto, the new Posit Assistant interface, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

I'm checking out the new packages pane in our #Positron IDE. Python or #RStats. The little blue arrows mean package updates are available. Search, sort, install, update, remove, and filter by category. More cool metadata coming in a future release.

I have loved working with @ropensci.org so much! ❤️ For the qualtRics package specifically, we are currently looking for a new maintainer as I no longer deal with Qualtrics as part of my daily work. If you are a user of both #rstats and Qualtrics, let's chat: github.com/ropensci/qua...

New post, featuring what I recently learnt about Git worktrees: masalmon.eu/2026/04/23/g...

📝 "Explore #TidyTuesday literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer" 👤 Julia Silge (@juliasilge.com) 🔗 https://juliasilge.com/blog/literary-prizes/ #rladies#rstats

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

A few months ago, any LLM that I could run on my Macbook scored 0% on an agentic coding eval I put together. This month's Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases both scored 90%. On my blog: simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-04...

I had the pleasure of speaking to students at both Duke University and Wake Forest University about the existential crisis that many of them are feeling right now: In the age of AI, is my degree worthless? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTx...

We are thrilled to announce that Positron Server is now available for academic use via JupyterHub! This gives students a robust #RStats & #Python data science IDE without needing a local install or new infrastructure. Learn more: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Alright, Positron's data viewer has me sold—this is legitimately better than RStudio. The nice continuous/ordinal histograms and missing value percentages are actually quite helpful and have already replaced a lot of ... |> pull() |> hist() type workflows I used to use #RStats

I got native dev containers working in Positron! Blog post forthcoming, but for now, here's a minimal repo showing how it works: it uses Quarto and Typst and Docker to make a little PDF report github.com/andrewheiss/... (Positron documentation: positron.posit.co/dev-containe...) #rstats

When it comes to #Python type checkers and LSPs, we had a lot of options for what to bundle in Positron, our data science IDE! 🤯 Read through how we evaluated Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban, and what we ended up deciding to use by default: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Our latest @posit.co AI Newsletter swaps the usual roundup for something different. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I traced the (brief) history of agents for data science at Posit, from Shiny Assistant to Databot to Positron Assistant to our latest release, Posit Assistant. posit.co/blog/2026-03...

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Anyone else spoiled by R's pkgdown and find python's mkdocs or sphinx a bit tedious and config-heavy. Check out @richmeister.bsky.social 's awesome new {great-docs} as a batteries-included alternative to spin up an effective docs site in <15 min! 1/n 🧵 github.com/posit-dev/gr...

ggplot defaults are bouba, matplotlib defaults are kiki

Wondering why Astral joined OpenAI? We recently hosted Charlie Marsh from Astral on The Test Set, where he discussed how AI agents were already reshaping Astral’s roadmap. If you want to hear where his head was at before the news broke, check out the episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noxo...

Our latest blog post shows we can deploy boosted tree models, such as xgboost, lightgbm, or catboost, directly into the database itself! Running predictionsfrom an xgboost model on 2.1 million observations in less than 10 seconds! posit.co/blog/deployi... #rstats #tidymodels #mlops

I am so happy for this announcement!! Heather is such an incredible community partner and deeply knowledgeable of base R. This is great news for R core and the broader R community. 🎉❤️🙌🤩 #rstats

If you are a local SLC-area #rstats person, join us this coming Friday afternoon for an IRL networking gathering to chat all things data science! I shall be eating a fancy waffle 🧇 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

RStudio now has next edit suggestions! I wrote a bit about how they work and have open-sourced the eval we used to engineer the system's prompt: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

The #Positron team has a new blog! ✨ Check out the first post, about a talk I recently gave for R-Ladies Abuja, and subscribe via email or RSS feed to stay up to date: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

#rainbowR conf is todayyyyy! And tomorrow. If you're registered, join @damiepak.bsky.social and I for a short trivia game in about an hour-ish! And then, a quick social 🥳 #rstats #rainbowrconf

"Working with agents is a lot more productive, but a lot less fun." Charlie Marsh on the weird world of building software right now. Full conversation on The Test Set.

New feature in the Positron Notebook Editor: Inline data-explorer view. Whenever you print a pandas or polars dataframe you get an inline interactive view powered by Positron's data explorer. This allows you to view and sort massive dataframes.

Join us now!

Next Tuesday (Feb 17), join the SLC RUG to hear from David B. Dahl about using Rust in #rstats packages! 🦀 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

Commenting on PRs is broken. Time to just merge PRs.

My wife hates apps in favor of hand-writing grocery lists. I have not the attention span to remember what I have already procured from the list or how to best navigate our grocery store to get the items. I built an app to solve this…

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Exciting update for #Jupyter and Notebook centric users in #Positron ! posit.co/blog/announc... #PositronIDE #PyData #DataBS

The latest monthly release of Positron has a BRAND NEW editor for `.ipynb` available for early alpha testing! 📒 I am excited about what Positron is going to offer Jupyter notebook users in terms of truly "batteries included" IDE integration: posit.co/blog/announc...

I had such a good time speaking at @atds.space this year! All the talks were great & the videos are now online, including mine on demystifying AI code assistance, i.e. what is actually going on when you use a tool like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot or Positron Assistant?! youtu.be/u0JBMGlzcGw?...

Frivolous post: "Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming" 🧶 masalmon.eu/2026/01/26/a...

"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall! More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

it only took a year but I'm back with more information about my Positron setup! This time I'm going over my Extensions and Settings emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

The latest release of #Positron has a TOTAL REVAMP of the integration to GitHub Copilot, which solves a ton of auth problems! In this screencast, I walk through how to set up Positron Assistant 🤖 to use GitHub Copilot as a model provider: youtu.be/T8dCQ6iIFXo

I sent 200 pull requests using Claude Code and wrote about the experience. It's pretty wild! For dplyr releases, we send a PR any time we break an #rstats package. This release advances a lot of deprecated functions, triggering issues in many old packages! blog.davisvaughan.com/posts/2026-0...