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eeptools enters long-term support
There are no new features in eeptools 1.3.0, and that is the point. After more than a decade and a quarter-million downloads, I'm putting the package officially into long-term support — a maintenance phase of deliberate deprecation that ends with a 2.0 release pared down to only what's still uniquely useful for education data.
cornball.ai
R as CLI Agent Harness
https://cornball.ai/posts/r-as-agent-runtime/ →
This is an interesting project I am tracking. There are so many AI agent harnesses, but harnesses make such a difference in the capabilities and usefulness of the tools. Particularly smaller LLMs really benefit from strong harnesses. Could be super useful!
merTools 1.0: prediction intervals for mixed models, validated against brms
After a decade on CRAN, merTools reaches 1.0 — feature complete, in long-term support, and now benchmarked head-to-head against full Bayesian inference.
I really enjoyed this entry inHadley Wickham’s series on LLM coding tools. It is a level-headed look beyond the hype and hate at what works, what doesn’t, and working through conflicted feelings about how LLMs are changing statistical software practice.