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Re:Big Book of R by TheSoftwareGuy on Friday April 11, 2025 @10:13AM (#43654033)
Plotting is one task I find such huge benefits to AI coding assistants. I can ask "make a plot with such and such data, one line per <blank>" etc. Since its so east to validate the code (just run the program and look at the plots) iterations are super easy
Re:Big Book of R by raffael_de on Friday April 11, 2025 @12:59PM (#43655990)
That's probably 50% what I use Claude for. But always "use matplotlib's explicit / object-oriented interface and don't add comments".