I was skeptical of AI coding agents until a friend introduced me to spec-driven development: co-write detailed specs and plans with AI first, then let AI execute while you verify at checkpoints.

So I tried it on my stationary bike project. Here's how it went:
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I recently got a "dumb" stationary bike to avoid bloated apps. Then wanted analytics. Solution? Put an ESP32 on it! 🐦

Patched into the reed switch, 3D-printed an enclosure, wrote firmware in MicroPython. Now I have a smart bike I actually control!

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Lessons learned: R's graphics device state (e.g. your RStudio Plots pane size) can cause the same code to produce different results. If you use ggplotly() in Shiny, always specify width= and height=!

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Building production Shiny apps or R APIs? Here’s a neat way I've found to keep your project-local dev scripts tidy and well-scoped:

Instead of sourcing scripts, create a nested dev package in your repo and autoload it during interactive sessions.

Read more here: www.kylehusmann.com/posts/2025/r...

When vibe coding goes very wrong: github.com/posit-dev/po...

TLDR: Positron Assistant wrote code that literally ran `rm -rf /`...

Stay safe out there y'all!

I'm so excited that @kylehusmann.bsky.social has joined BlueSky! Kyle is such a whiz when it comes to all things coding, metadata, data management, data engineering, etc.! Kyle wrote one of the articles I featured in Issue 1 of the RDM Weekly Newsletter! ICYMI!
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Ever tried attaching observers to dynamic UI in Shiny and ended up with weird interactivity bugs and memory leaks?

I wrote this post to spare others the pain I went through… and in the hope that someone out there will tell me there's better approach! www.kylehusmann.com/posts/2025/s...