AI-Accelerated Development with Positron Assistant
Generating production-ready fraud detection code from a plain-English prompt.
Building the Fraud Detection Model
Engineering features and training an XGBoost model directly on Snowflake data.
Exploring Data with Databot
Summarizing a transaction dataset and surfacing outliers with natural language.
Real-Time Monitoring and Production Deployment
Deploying a live Shiny dashboard and scheduled scoring jobs to Posit Connect.
Q&A
This is the live Q&A recording from our session on May 27, 2026. If you'd like to join us live in the future, we host Posit Workflow Demos the last Wednesday of every month, and you can add them to your calendar with this link.
Q&A Timestamps
00:00 - Free options for evaluating Snowflake + Positron outside an enterprise environment?
01:47 - How is Positron different from VS Code with Copilot or Claude Code?
03:25 - Is application deployment done entirely through Posit, or is Snowflake involved?
04:35 - Can the Posit/Snowflake native app be tried for free on the marketplace?
05:04 - Can it also work with SAS code?
06:05 - Is it possible to deploy the app in a container (Singularity or Docker)?
07:12 - What are the safeguards for using these tools with PHI or sensitive data in Snowflake?
08:49 - Can Positron integrate with GCP?
11:18 - Are the individual workflow components (Snowflake, Positron, Git, Shiny) switchable?
12:07 - Can you add Codex/Claude to Positron Assistant?
