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Tidy Design by Hadley Wickham
Hadley Wickham's Substack on the principles of tidy design — API and software design through the lens of R and the tidyverse.
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post pub. Jul 24, 2026
Hadley Wickham writes up a talk on his ambivalence about AI-assisted coding — the "software factory" dystopia of Steve Yegge's Gas Town versus using AI to write higher-quality code — and argues chat interfaces leave ~90% of an LLM's value on the table for programming, compared to giving it a harness to write, run, and iterate on code with a feedback loop of errors and docs.