Safe & Maintainable AI Apps in Python

SciPy 2026 Tutorial

Carson Sievert · Posit

A 4-hour hands-on tutorial on building safe, verifiable, and maintainable AI apps in Python — using chatlas, shinychat, and querychat.

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What we’ll cover

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Foundations
embrace the good, engineer around the bad · 45 min


chatlas
programming with LLMs · 60 min


shinychat
chatbots made easy · 45 min


querychat
self-service analytics case study · 45 min

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