Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
Julia Silge
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The user interface in the new Posit Assistant is one of the best and most intuitive I've seen for using AI tools for editing code. This will be excellent for students and researchers already familiar with RStudio. This is a brilliant harness and user experience for using AI for data science 🎉
I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!
"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...
We admit we're in an awkward spot right now 😅 in this migration for our AI coding assistance tooling, but I am really happy with how the Posit Assistant experience is shaping up.
Give it a try, if you haven't yet!
The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share some of what's in it! 🙌 Read about how we improved startup performance, the ongoing migration from Positron Assistant to Posit Assistant, and more:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
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...
This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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Robin Lovelace
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At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!
"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...
