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Principal Software Engineer, Posit
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Chief Scientist, Posit
Hadley Wickham
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Wes McKinney
Episode 10
James Blair: Part 2 Solutions engineering, critical thinking, and staying human
This episode is Part 2 of our conversation with James Blair. He explains how he found his “accidental perfect fit” as a solutions engineer and how that role became a pipeline into product management. Get a peek into the AI-powered tooling he’s now building for the Posit ecosystem, and hear how he’s using Claude Code, Positron Assistant, and DataBot to generate synthetic, industry-specific demos on the fly — plus, why the real magic is keeping humans firmly in the loop.