What Yihui Xie thinks about coding agents

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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1. 3 May 2026

   Our readingAI coding assistants are leveling the skill gap between software developers who can afford to use them.

   Their wordsSkill-wise, most software developers, as long as they are willing/able to pay for AI assistants, are on the same page now.

   ↗Reflections on AI-assisted Programmingyihui.org 1st of 3 in this piece