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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. May 18, 2026
Hadley Wickham relaunches his Substack to write about AI — a genuinely conflicted take that acknowledges both the excitement (programming accessibility, wide and shallow expertise) and the harms (copyright theft, wealth concentration, intellectual laziness) without collapsing into a take.
The excited/harm framing is what makes this worth reading — programming accessibility, voice input, and wide/shallow expertise as genuine wins, alongside copyright and wealth concentration as real costs. Rare to see someone acknowledge both sides without collapsing into a take.