Thought-provoking keynote from Wes McKinney this AM @ #positconf2026

The existential dread in the wake of AI is real, but he reminds us the human touch is still essential to building great products.

Also adding to my 📚 list:
- The Mythical Man-Month
- The Reverse Centaurs Guide to Life After AI

Wes McKinney’s keynote at #positconf2026 is 🔥

The idea of a clanker constitution is one I’ve been working on as well, but not as elegant. Luckily he’s sharing it so we can read and learn from it.

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Day 1 of posit::conf was totally rad! 🎸 From AI data agents to @christinezhang.bsky.social's keynote on handling uncertainty (and THE NEEDLE 📈), to an 80s party with big hair!

Thanks for the gnarly photo, @travisgerke.bsky.social 🤘

Ready for Day 2! 🚀 #positconf2026

3 key skills in the era of software development with generative AI, @wesmckinney.com tells #PositConf2026:
Judgment - deciding what's worth doing
Taste - recognize what makes it good
Agency

We're now at 176 Bluesky posts with the #positconf2026 #positconf and/or #positcon26 hashtag(s)
Shiny app to search and sort them all:
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#RStats #RShiny

Finally meeting the amazing @tanyashapiro.bsky.social in person and sharing the stage with her was so fun!

Slides + links to all the tools we talked about are here: github.com/jadeynryan/p...

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Today at #positconf2026, I went rogue and interrupted the evening keynote with a nonsensical virtual poll because of some (hilarious?) technical issues 👀

You had to be there virtually, I promise it would have made sense. ANYONE WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME!

They haven't fired me yet 👉🏼👈🏼

It was a blast presenting on "Teaching Python with Positron" at #positconf2026. @posit.co knows how to do a data science conference. Thanks to my son Joseph for helping me put together some fun, human-made illustrations. lnkd.in/g-Y36kbk

For the first time in my 8 years at Posit I’m missing #positconf2026, but this year I had a very good reason to stay home 🙂

Day 1 of talks at posit::conf(2026) started with keynote speakers @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com

They talked about Posit’s efforts on building AI tools that are correct (trustworthy) while staying convenient (straightforward and intuitive).

slides: pos.it/keynote

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Talk. Done. ✅

I forgot a special someone on my thank you slide - @kweest0n.bsky.social you get all the flowers 🌸

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"We have a lot of R fans on my team" NY Times graphics editor @christinezhang.bsky.social tells #PositConf2026 🎉
She also said she often sketches out graphics using #RStats ggplot2 and is a frequent user of the Positron IDE.

Great keynote by @christinezhang.bsky.social at #positconf2026 giving us the behind the scenes story of the NYT election needle and laying out the many angles to consider when "squaring the circle" of visualizing data uncertainty for a broad audience. Thank you!

Wicked psyched to share that shinychat v0.5.0 #RStats and v0.7.1 #Python are now available! Check out all the rad new features on the Posit Open Source blog. #PositConf2026
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

nice pallet cleanser after going through multiple 2024 presidential election charts 😅 #PositConf2026

This keynote by @christinezhang.bsky.social starts off strong by casually showing us that squaring a circle is mathematically impossible

"How to be clear when you can't be certain" is also just a great talk title

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I wonder if this is a chart for the Ohio senate race between Brown and Husted 🤔 #PositConf2026

@tanyashapiro.bsky.social and @jadeynryan.bsky.social on meeting users where they’re at when building Quarto templates to shiny apps. #positconf2026 #datascience

ready for today’s final talk. the pink background with histograms is so cool #PositConf2026

@posit.co is working on a project called Canvas, a much more LLM-focused way of working than their current IDEs. Positron and RStudio have LLM chats in a vertical sidebar; Canvas give AI way more screen real estate. It should be ready try out soon, CTO @jcheng5.bsky.social told #PositConf2026