Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · May 8

The newest release of Posit Assistant, an agent for coding and data analysis, includes a "data cleaning mode." When enabled, the agent will run quality checks and surface decisions about e.g. import issues, factor levels, etc to the user. In the AI Newsletter: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...

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dnu · May 8

Surfacing the choices matters more than auto-cleaning tbh. the messiest failures are usually factor coercions and date parsing. do you let people save a fix once, or is every cleanup decision per-run?