Julia Silge
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Julia Silge
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Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
I've been very focused on tooling for data science for a while! It might be interesting to talk about what's different building tools for data folks vs. straight software engineers (or web dev in particular).

These days I spend my time on Positron (data-oriented fork of VS Code):
positron.posit.co
Positron
Positron unifies exploration and production work in one free, AI-assisted environment, empowering the full spectrum of data science in Python and R.
positron.posit.co
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So glad you are having a better experience! It definitely made a difference for me 💞
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I always love talking about tool building! 🥳
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I appreciate you reporting it, for real!
October 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ah gosh, thank you for pointing this out! This is just plain a bug and not the intended behavior. I have opened this here for us to get this fixed:
github.com/posit-dev/po...
Assistant Console actions should respect `positron.assistant.enable` · Issue #9919 · posit-dev/positron
We turned on positron.assistant.consoleActions.enable by default in the latest release, but the way this plays out is that folks see those Fix/Explain prompts in their console even if they do not h...
github.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM