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Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-03...

This might be a dumb question, but I'm assuming you don't want to use this if you are working with sensitive/identifiable data?

Yeah, I saw that in the FAQs. Ok cool, I'll need to think on this! Thanks!

I would pretty closely read Anthropic's guidelines on ZDR arrangements. I'm not confident that it'd be safe for truly sensitive data, especially any data that the US government law might permit requesting (e.g., Patriot Act). Not sure it'd be viable in Canada. docs.posit.co/posit-ai/use...

"Even with ZDR arrangements in place, Anthropic may retain data where required by law or to combat Usage Policy violations and malicious uses of Anthropic's platform. As a result, if a chat or session is flagged for such a violation, Anthropic may retain inputs and outputs for up to 2 years."

I've been noticing this as a general issue with AI providers. "Zero data retention" policies, even if they're not full of asterisks, are only one small piece of what it takes to meet compliance standards for sensitive data, but we hear this bland assurance that this policy is sufficient all the time