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Wes McKinney

@wesmckinney.com
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Principal Architect @posit.co, GP Composed Ventures, Co-founder Voltron Data. Open source: Apache Arrow, pandas, Ibis. "Python for Data Analysis" book

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Recce - Trust, Verify, Ship @datarecce.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"This is bad. Why haven't you fixed this yet? I would have already fixed this today with Claude code." -- @wesmckinney.com on radical accountability for software vendors. #AIcodingagent #DataRenegades
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Posit @posit.co · 02/03/2026
@wesmckinney.com is on an absolute tear. 🔥 The pandas creator is leveraging AI to rapidly ship tools, crossing Swift, Go, and Python to build Agents View, VibePulse, roborev, moneyflow, msgvault, Spicy Takes... @richmeister.bsky.social breaks it down on the Posit blog: posit.co/blog/the-pro...
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The Prolific Output of Wes McKinney in the Age of Agentic Engineering - Posit
Wes McKinney is shipping open source projects faster than ever, using AI coding agents to build across Python, Go, Swift, and Rust... and he's having more fun than he's had in years.
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Posit @posit.co · 24/02/2026
"Working with agents is a lot more productive, but a lot less fun." Charlie Marsh on the weird world of building software right now. Full conversation on The Test Set.
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Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com · 09/02/2026
roborev does GitHub now! Just shipped the initial GitHub PR experience, multi-agent / multi-prompt reviews that synthesize to a single coherent review response: www.roborev.io/integrations...
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GitHub Integration
Automatically review GitHub PRs and post results as bot comments
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Had a great time on @posit.co 's Test Set pod w/ @mchow.com @hadley.nz @wesmckinney.com! We talk about moving between R, SQL, python and the strengths of different analytical tools for diff data tasks. You won't believe what proprietary language gets a shout-out (Stata!) posit.co/thetestset/e...
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Episode 14 – Emily Riederer: Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public - Posit
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Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com · 29/01/2026
roborev can now analyze and systematically refactor your code for you — this is essential to managing the poor code quality of agents in rapidly expanding agentic code bases. Game changer for me www.roborev.io/guides/assis...
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Code Analysis and Assisted Refactoring
Run built-in code analysis and automatically apply fixes with roborev analyze and roborev fix
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Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com · 23/01/2026
roborev now supports Windows (x64 and ARM)! Lots of new features and quality-of-life features, too (such as `y` to copy-paste/yank review to clipboard to paste into your agent session) www.roborev.io/installation/
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Installation
Install roborev on your system
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Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com · 23/01/2026
Any now there were 14. Welcoming @joereis.bsky.social to Spicy Takes! joereis.spicytakes.org
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Joe Reis - Data engineering, modern data stack, and industry rants
Co-author of 'Fundamentals of Data Engineering' sharing practical insights on data architecture, the modern data stack, and technology trends.
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Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com · 20/01/2026
A funny thing is happening: the more I build with agents, the less I want to use Python. I explore this in my latest "From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics" wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-e...
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From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics – Wes McKinney
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Posit @posit.co · 12/12/2025
Join Wes McKinney (@wesmckinney.com) and the Pixeltable @pixeltable.net team, Marcel Kornacker and Alison Hill (@apreshill.com), for a fireside chat hosted by Hugo Bowne-Anderson on Dec 16! They will discuss data processing and #AI workflows for multimodal data 📊 Register: luma.com/2y04b6nf
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Building Multimodal AI Workflows with Pixeltable · Luma
The challenge with multimodal AI isn't calling models. It's everything else. Videos need to become frames. Audio needs transcription. Embeddings need to stay…
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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 06/12/2025
Super interesting @wesmckinney.com insight: AI may stagnate Open Source - because users will be much more inclined to adopt software that AI tools can help them with, rather than newer tools that it isn't trained on yet. Kind of a "snake eating tail" problem as far as generating new training data.
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Nitay Joffe @nitayj.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“Parquet is great… until GPUs, multimodal data & million-column schemas show up.” The creator of pandas/Arrow @wesmckinney.com digs into Arrow vs Parquet, new columnar + table formats, DataFusion/DuckDB, metadata headaches, and what AI coding agents mean for open source infra. Episode link below
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Supermetal @supermetal-inc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🚀 Launching Supermetal — data replication that just works. Sync databases to warehouses in real-time or batch — no Kafka, no JVM, no Debezium. Built in Rust & Apache Arrow. Try it → trial.supermetal.io Launch post → supermetal.io/blog/launch
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Supermetal - High Performance Data Replication Platform
Move terabytes of data with minimal resources using our Rust-based CDC platform. Single binary, zero dependencies.
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Ian Cook @ian.columnar.tech · 29/10/2025
The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched @columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
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Announcing Columnar
Back to the future of data connectivity
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 27/10/2025
It was such a pleasure to join @hadley.nz, @wesmckinney.com, and @mchow.com on THE TEST SET! You can check out the two parts of our conversation here: 🍕 posit.co/thetestset/e... 🤖 posit.co/thetestset/e...
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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet. 📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/... 📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...
F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
SIGMOD 2025
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Columnar @columnar.tech · 18/08/2025
In September the @columnar.tech crew are headed to PyData Paris 2025 and the first ever Apache Arrow Summit. The organizer @quantstack.bsky.social is a dedicated supporter of @arrow.apache.org. We’re delighted to be sponsoring the event.
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Posit @posit.co · 18/06/2025
Data science junkies, get ready! 🚀 "The Test Set" #podcast trailer is here for your viewing pleasure. Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience. Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset
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bauplan @bauplan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🚀 Introducing **Bauplan** A serverless, code-native platform for building data and AI pipelines — directly on your object store. No clusters. No notebooks. No GUI based workflows. Just Python + SQL + S3. 👉 www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/hello-b...
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Rerun @rerun.io · 20/03/2025
1/ We just raised $17M to build the multimodal data stack for Physical AI! 🚀 Lead: pointnine.com With: costanoa.vc, Sunflower Capital, @seedcamp.com Angels including: @rauchg.blue, Eric Jang, Oliver Cameron, @wesmckinney.com , Nicolas Dessaigne, Arnav Bimbhet Thesis: rerun.io/blog/physica...
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