Our September meetup will be an in-person gathering for local SLC area folks! We will meet at Blacksmith Ice Cream Co in Millcreek to spend time networking, having some ice

Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

Highlights from the 2026.09 release of Positron, including a redesigned welcome page, a first version of Import Data, new Posit Assistant features, expanded Data Connections, package vulnerability sca...

You're usually better off doing plain old prompt engineering.

The best moments in a statistics classroom come from discovery, when a student wrestles a messy dataset into shape, sees a pattern emerge in a plot, and genuinely wonders why. In a world increasingly shaped by AI, the tools we put in front of students can either crowd out those moments or make room for them. Positron is a next generation data science IDE from Posit, the creators of RStudio, Quarto, Shiny, and the tidyverse. It offers first-class interactive support for both Python and R and is built to keep students close to their data.

Highlights from the 2026.08 release of Positron, including new SQL features, a better reproducible authoring experience, improved handling of missing packages, and more.

The Positron Jupyter Notebook editor is now generally available, bringing a first-class notebook experience with built-in environment management, interactive data exploration, streamlined version cont...

Highlights from the 2026.07 release of Positron, including the new Notebook editor, Packages pane, and Posit Assistant all reaching general availability.

Exploring the Positron features that use uv to enable Python installation and management.

Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...

Join us for a full day of collaborative open source work — whether you're a seasoned contributor or making your very first pull request.

ggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post.

Model releases from the last couple months have shown a large jump in capability on our bluffbench eval, which measures agents' ability to faithfully describe plots showing surprising results.

Our June Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. From our speaker: In 2025, I [shared the concept of "vibe engineering,"

What we learned from Positron Assistant and Databot

Many of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them.

Highlights from the 2026.06 release of Positron, including faster startup and migrating to Posit Assistant.

Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more!

At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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Highlights from the 2026.05 release of Positron, including a new Packages pane and inline output for Quarto.

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

YouTube video by Davis Vaughan