This summarizes the actual hard parts of my job as a government statistician. But I'm hoping LLM-generated code (R in my case) can let me stay "in the flow" wh

This summarizes the actual hard parts of my job as a government statistician. But I'm hoping LLM-generated code (R in my case) can let me stay "in the flow" when exploring. I can spot-check generated code pretty quickly, but finding data, reading their docs, then finding packages to do what I want takes time. I'll often forget why I asked the question in the first place. For example, "How many children lived within 50 miles downstream of X in 2015 and were diagnosed with Y?" I can imagine how the finished code would look, but writing it myself means brushing up on the diagnosis records, two or three GIS datasets, and a GIS package. If we had a nice database or warehouse, this wouldn't be terrible. I don't fear for my job. The coffee would be generated by including snippets of previous analyses in prompts, and guess who wrote those snippets? My role will become less coding, and more reaching out to policymakers and nonprofits to help them answer questions. I'll tell them what data we do have, what's reliable, and what kind of statistics can answer their questions. At least, that's my dream.