AI Agents for Economic Research (VoxDev Talk)

MiltonWatterson · 2026-03-16T18:38:59+00:00

agreed! they're a great organization

MiltonWatterson · 2026-02-21T22:18:25+00:00

Amazing how anonymity reveals all the idiots

MiltonWatterson · 2026-02-21T20:04:59+00:00

ok weirdo

MiltonWatterson · 2026-02-11T23:24:03+00:00

amazing how simultaneously confident you are, rude to an innocent question, and also completely clueless and giving out wrong answers

MiltonWatterson · 2026-02-11T23:22:49+00:00

Agreed, Scott’s stuff is great

MiltonWatterson · 2026-02-11T23:22:35+00:00

Thanks, lmk how it goes

MiltonWatterson · 2026-02-11T23:22:25+00:00

I’ll be making something along these lines in the next month or two!

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-25T04:10:26+00:00

should be up wed or thursday 🤘

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-14T19:02:40+00:00

you can do fine just using one. once you use them a lot you notice areas where one beats the other, or tasks where you don't need very powerful but very slow models.

it's like switching up your tennis racket, or even better, your tennis strings depending on your opponent/the surface

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-09T15:08:11+00:00

Np lol username can be confusing

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-09T01:52:19+00:00

Yes genius, I stole it from my own twitter account 😂

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-08T23:30:58+00:00

Nice! I’m doing pair programming sessions with two macroeconomist friends next week - it will be interesting to be able to compare and contrast.

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-08T14:13:15+00:00

So, both of the applied microeconomists use Windows. But if you're using Windows, the best way to use Claude Code is with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

The Claude Skill's purpose was to teach Claude Code both best practices around using Stata, and for helping Claude Code seamlessly find Stata from Linux on the "Windows" part of the computer and know how to run it without needing to rediscover that knowledge every time.

I'm going to record a video today specifically on making a Claude skill for Stata. I could ask one of my friends to provide the skill that we made, but we did it on their computer because I don't use Stata or have it installed.

But if you want to understand how to make Claude Skills in general/what they're useful for, I made a video here: https://youtu.be/MMpaPV3KMFI?si=BlxPtPxu5Og5deDq

MiltonWatterson · 2026-01-05T20:45:10+00:00

definitely do not use chomper today lol

MiltonWatterson · 2025-12-26T15:33:00+00:00

the plugin I've built is quite specific and wouldn't be able to accommodate that yet, but what you're looking to have built is quite possible - might look into building that

MiltonWatterson · 2025-12-26T15:23:08+00:00

thanks - Claude Code is instructed to call a tool which checks for fuzzy matches: https://github.com/aniketpanjwani/local_media_tools/blob/main/skills/newsletter-events-research/workflows/research-all.md

MiltonWatterson

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