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OOH Session #140…
AI–Assisted
App Build (II)

Open Office Hours
(August 05, 2026)

  • Recap session #139
  • Today’s topic(s):
  • Shared problem-solving






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Recap of Session
#139:

AI–Assisted App Build (I)

  • Initial fail (app cycling without presenting visual)
    • 2 or 3 correction fails
    • not touched since last week (total time = ~20 minutes)
I would like to build a Quarto dashboard, powered by 
R, that has 3 primary functions. #1 - user types an 
address, #2 - a map displays the address, and #3 -data 
is shown about the address. I do have a US Census 
API Key if we go that route for the address data, but 
I am open to alternatives. Please provide all code 
necessary to execute this dashboard



Out of several considered options, chose to build via GitHub Copilot from within GitHub

Today…

AI–Assisted App Build (II)


    AI Categorization1


Level Reasoning Depth Context Awareness Speed R/Quarto Support Best For Cost/Privacy
1. Standalone High Project description Medium Excellent (via prompting) Planning & learning Varies (API)
2. IDE-Integrated Medium File + open project High Strong (esp. Copilot) Daily coding Subscription
3. Agentic High Full codebase Medium-High Good (with good prompting) Complex/multi-file work Higher
4. Platform Medium Repo + team Medium Good Review & collab Platform-dependent

& Session Info (August 05, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.5.0    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5         tools_4.5.0      
 [5] htmltools_0.5.9   otel_0.2.0        rstudioapi_0.18.0 yaml_2.3.12      
 [9] rmarkdown_2.31    knitr_1.51        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.57        
[13] digest_0.6.39     rlang_1.1.7       evaluate_1.0.5

Quarto version 1.9.37