Kyle Walker

@MattK_recycled @zeddotdev It’s decent, but I mostly use Zed for managing agents in projects nowadays If I want to execute R code interactively, Positron is better

@kyle_e_walker @zeddotdev How do you find setting up and using R with Zed? Or are you mainly using Zed for other, non-R dev work (Rust, etc)?

Lots of talk about "the terminal is the new IDE" Even though I do most of my work with agents nowadays I still want IDE features @zeddotdev is the sweet spot: clean file browser, arrangeable terminals for Claude / Codex, Markdown preview, another terminal for R / Python

@arvi1000 @zeddotdev It’s more minimal than VSCode which I find clunky. I can hardly use VSCode effectively without an external monitor That said, I do love Positron despite this

@kyle_e_walker @zeddotdev Any reason you prefer this over a more common IDE like VS code, which also does file browser, terminals, .md rendering ?

@xplosivememory mission accomplished, haha! the real value of BA though is the data it ships with. With Claude + my R packages you could reasonably replicate most of BA's functionality. What you can't replicate is all of the consumer + psychographic data

@kyle_e_walker you are making it very hard to justify spending on a BA license

Another update to R's spopt-r package: you can specify "required" and "candidate" facilities in max coverage / location-allocation solvers Brief demo: choosing the best new fire stations from candidate points in Fort Worth Same functionality here as ArcGIS's Network Analyst

@TXpaintbrush appreciate that!

@kyle_e_walker I love your work and the open source philosophy. Makes me want to make public some of my own repos. Just need to disentangle sensitive business details of our portfolio. I’m with you on the optimism of empowering folks vs the doomer-ism of perm underclass & UBI

I think it's easy to forget among us building with AI that most people are consumers, not builders And consumers see: - Mindless AI slop overwhelming Facebook and Instagram - Threats of job losses - Tools to make them more "productive" at work with unclear financial benefit

Quick example of how to use it: github.com/walkerke/spopt… I'll share a blog on this example when I get the chance Learn more about spopt-r: walker-data.com/spopt-r

@Togorio yeah they are! I've been trying to build AI solutions to handle that but there's only so much you can do, haha

@kyle_e_walker Deed descriptions, particularly in W. TX, are hilarious, "starting at a mesquite, n 270 degrees to a rock which is 400' south of an oak tree, etc., etc., etc."

Texas doesn't use the standard US land survey system. You'll find sections and blocks in West TX, abstracts from Spanish land grants in East TX - 311k survey areas to navigate. Wells Intelligence makes them all searchable in seconds. Get started: wells.clearforkintelligence.com

If you need more custom land mapping and analytics, we're building these solutions for clients at Clearfork Intelligence: clearforkintelligence.com

I was there last night and I will say this was really cool to see in person

@toddsaunders love this optimistic take - that's exactly what I'm trying to pull off

I heard an incredible analogy from a VC friend that I can’t stop thinking about. “The moat in software was the cost of building software. And Claude Code just mass produced a bridge.” It’s wild when you think about the impact of this. The SaaS boom produced a few dozen billionaires and a bunch of zero sum winners. But the AI SaaS era will mass produce millionaires. There will be fewer ServiceTitans hitting $5B valuations, and instead there will be 50,000 companies doing $500K-$5M each, run by 1-3 people with deep expertise and huge margins. To be clear, I believe that the total value of software goes up, and the number of companies created goes up exponentially. But the number of people who capture the value also goes up 100x. I don’t believe in the “SaaS is dying” headline, I think it’s missing the point. It’s simply that the power of SaaS is changing hands.

@permexpat appreciate that, glad you've found it useful!

@kyle_e_walker Man, I was able to go look up the operator of a gas well on land adjacent to farm land I own in Illinois, and grabbed some info off an abandoned well on my great grandmothers land, first rig I was on in 1973 when I was 6 years old, this is a fun tool!

1.7 million Texas oil & gas wells. Zoom to an area, lasso wells, see who's operating. Click a well, get an interactive decline curve. Download the data you need, all in seconds. I'm launching Wells Intelligence today. Try it: wells.clearforkintelligence.com

@bygregorr It’s the #1 feature I hear about from interested customers

@kyle_e_walker The lasso-to-operator lookup is the part that would've taken a GIS analyst half a day before this.

@AllTheBarrels Thank you!

@kyle_e_walker Wow. This is a great product. Well done

@JJT13 thank you!

@kyle_e_walker Impressive

New in the spopt-r #rstats package: route optimization. Solve the classic Traveling Salesman Problem for a single driver or optimize a fleet by solving the Vehicle Routing Problem. Written in Rust so they solve fast. Read the vignette: walker-data.com/spopt-r/articl…

Looking forward to seeing how you use the platform. If this isn't enough: I'm building custom analytics on top of this data for clients at Clearfork Intelligence: clearforkintelligence.com

You can browse the interactive map of 5 million US wells free; paid plans start at $99/month for production analytics, exports, and watch areas.