13. Packages and LLMs
This week …
Getting into the habit of packaging your work. Also, what LLMs can and cannot do for you right now.
Reading
Packages
- Hadley Wickham and Jennifer Bryan R Packages: Organize, Test, Document, and Share Your Code, 2nd ed. (O’Reilly Media, 2023), https://r-pkgs.org., Introduction; Chapters 1-11, 16.
AI and LLMs
- Vicki Boykis (2025). How big are our embeddings now and why?
- Glyph (2025). I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now. Deciphering Glyph.
- Rob Napier (2025). TIL:AI. Thoughts on AI. Cocoaphony.
- Thomas Ptacek (2025). My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. Fly.io.
- Tristan Mahr (2025). readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped).
- Ellmer Vignettes: