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Simon P. Couch

Data science blog covering statistical modeling, R programming, and computational methods for research.

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Software is so cool
October 5th, 2026•simonpcouch.com
You probably don’t want to fine-tune
September 3rd, 2026•simonpcouch.com
8B LLMs can almost do basic agentic coding
September 2nd, 2026•simonpcouch.com
LLMs are getting much better at interpreting counterintuitive plots
June 19th, 2026•simonpcouch.com
LLMs running on my laptop can drive coding agents now
April 16th, 2026•simonpcouch.com
How Posit AI’s Next Edit Suggestions work
March 6th, 2026•simonpcouch.com
Introducing Posit AI
March 5th, 2026•simonpcouch.com
Electricity use of AI coding agents
January 20th, 2026•simonpcouch.com
chores 0.3.0 and local LLMs
December 10th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
Local models are not there (yet)
December 4th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
Analyzing my music listening data with Databot
December 3rd, 2025•simonpcouch.com
When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see
November 26th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
side::kick(), a coding agent for RStudio
November 11th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
I’m… writing a newsletter?
October 8th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
I was wrong about tidymodels and LLMs
August 26th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
R and the Model Context Protocol
August 14th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
How I’m using Claude Code to write R code
July 17th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
Kimi K2 and R Coding
July 14th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
Claude 4 and R Coding
May 27th, 2025•simonpcouch.com
Evaluating Gemini 2.5 Flash on R coding tasks
May 21st, 2025•simonpcouch.com