Simon P. Couch

@simonpcouch.com

he/him - writing statistical software at Posit, PBC (née RStudio)🥑

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@molly.wikiReposted by @simonpcouch.com

“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger

Kybosh@kybosh.bsky.social

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123 nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a agg23 commented yesterday If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think would ever see this implemented (I also didn't expect LLMs to exist). However, this is not something you can PR here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and you somehow expect me to review it. There is SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never minding all of the docs and Python, you've somehow touched basically all of the upstream HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk what in the world you're doing. This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into; completely unrequested. I hope for the sake of all responsible maintainers that you do not do such a thing again. Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM supposedly got this to work. It has no place in my world.
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@simonpcouch.com

Such an honor to keynote at posit::conf(2026). I still vividly remember the first conf keynote I ever saw, when @jennybryan.bsky.social spoke about debugging in San Francisco. Very grateful for the opportunity (especially to present alongside @sara-altman.bsky.social)!

Me, from behind, facing to posit::conf() crowd. The speaker's screen reads "In the battle between convenience and correctness, convenience is winning."The stage, from the viewer's perspective. Sara sits behind me, and a large logo reading posit conf(2026) is behind us. On both sides is our slide deck, showing two dots besides each other.
@simonpcouch.com

My schedule for the day of my posit::conf talk was: * 2, 3, 4, 5, 6am: wake up, worried I'd miss my alarm * 9-10am: speak * 11am-3pm: nap * 7pm: realize it was the day of the odbc CRAN release deadline and frantically send out a patch

@simonpcouch.com

FYI Posit AI Pass subscribers; we wound down the instance serving Gemma 4 today. If you were a regular user, you might give GLM 5.3 Flash a try; it's vision capable, quite a bit larger and newer (and thus more capable!), and served at ~half the price that Gemma 4 was per-token!

@simonwillison.netReposted by @simonpcouch.com

"For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. [...] But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts."

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