What Hadley Wickham thinks about LLMs
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Hadley Wickham has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingUsing an LLM mainly through a chatbot on the web or a phone misses at least 90% of its value.
Their wordsBut the most important thing I want to tell you is that if your primary way of using an LLM is through a chatbot interface on the web or your phone, you are missing out on at least 90% of the goodness.
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Their wordsIf you’re a data scientist, you should learn to program with LLMs, because they give you data science superpowers.