Y Code When AI?
y code when ai?A talk on AI and codingHadley WickhamJul 24, 20261332822ShareI’ve given this talk on my feelings about AI and coding quite a few times (mostly recently for an ASA webinar), and I’ve decided I need to stop giving it and do something new. I’m someone who writes a lot of code, and it’s really changed the way that I produce R packages, but I still fundamentally believe that code is super important. So that’s something we’ll talk through today.Big pictureI want to start with the big picture.
- ▪y code when ai?A talk on AI and codingHadley WickhamJul 24, 20261332822ShareI’ve given this talk on my feelings about AI and coding quite a few times (mostly recently for an ASA webinar), and I’ve decided I need to stop giving it and do som
- ▪I’m someone who writes a lot of code, and it’s really changed the way that I produce R packages, but I still fundamentally believe that code is super important.
- ▪So that’s something we’ll talk through today.Big pictureI want to start with the big picture.
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y code when ai?A talk on AI and codingHadley WickhamJul 24, 20261332822ShareI’ve given this talk on my feelings about AI and coding quite a few times (mostly recently for an ASA webinar), and I’ve decided I need to stop giving it and do something new. So to force myself to do that I’ve written it up for you all 🙂.Before I get into the context, you might be interested in the process, since it also leans heavily on AI:I started by asking Claude to download the video from youtube, since I can never remember how to do it myself.Then I used MacWhisper to create a transcript, and saved the slides from my keynote presentation as individual PNGs.Next I did a few rounds of cleanup with Claude, first asking it to read my slides (so it know what terms I’m saying), then asking it to fix…
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