With the proper setup and guidance, you can have Claude Code, Codex, Posit Assistant, and other coding agents writing R code ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good.

Tools such as Cursor can go a long way toward simplifying code setup. There's still a lot of work to refine the results. Conceiving an app's goals and how to get there is the hidden gotcha of AI ...