All Summaries¶
This wiki contains 129 source summaries across the following categories.
Professional Productivity¶
See also: Professional Productivity overview
- Academic Tax Basics
- Building an AI Executive Assistant
- Chris Blattman Thread: From Claude Code Skeptic to Power User
- Example: Organizational Noise Canceling
- Example: Project Dashboard
- Example: Research Design & Progress Document
- Let's Work on the Next Task: Claude Code, GitHub, and the Most Diligent Project Manager I've Ever Had
- Meeting Transcription
- Project Management with AI
- Stress-Test Any Plan
- The Cost Reality
- Using Claude Code for Tax Season
- Voice Dictation
- When to Get Help (Tax Professional Escalation)
- Workflow Overview: From Inbox to Organized Return
Institutional & Societal Implications¶
See also: Institutional & Societal Implications overview
- AI as Normal Technology
- Academics Need to Wake Up on AI
- Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part II
- Alex Imas Thread: Man-Computer Symbiosis and the Excitement of AI in Research
- Arin Dube Thread: LLMs Haven't Raised NBER Working Papers Above Trend
- Chris Blattman X Post on Claude Code Adoption
- Claude Code 17: The Zero Profit Condition Is Coming
- Claude Code 21: Attention, Human Verification and Congestion
- Claude Code 21: Faculty Adoption of AI, Decks and Folders, and Security Risks
- Claude Code 31: Hadn't the Satisfaction Always Been in the Discovering, Not the Discoveries?
- How Do Scientists Use Claude Code?
- Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde Thread: Twelve Arguments for Traditional Higher Education
- Some Thoughts on AI and Research
- Something Big Is Happening
- The Bitter Lesson
- The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients
- The Train Has Left the Station: Agentic AI and the Future of Social Science Research
- What AI Got Wrong
Foundations & Setup¶
See also: Foundations & Setup overview
- AI Project Folders
- AI for Professionals Who Don't Code - Site Overview
- Chatbot Essentials - The AI Toolkit Stack
- Chatbots Done Right - From Casual Use to Genuine Productivity
- Claude Code for Newbies - Setup Guide
- Claude Container: A Complete Beginner's Guide
- Every Claude Code Hack I Know (March 2026)
- Getting Started with Claude Code: A Researcher's Setup Guide
- Getting Started: Claude Code for Economists (Markus Academy Ep. 162-1)
- Install Claude Code (Mac)
- Install Claude Code (Windows)
- MCP Setup - Connecting Claude Code to External Services
- My Claude Code Setup - Academic Workflow Template
- Privacy, Data, and Setup Decisions for AI Workflows
- Set Up VS Code for Claude Code
- Starter Templates for AI Workflow Skills
AI Tools & Comparisons¶
See also: AI Tools & Comparisons overview
- A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
- Awesome Econ AI Stuff: AI Skills for Economists
- ChatGPT vs Claude: Chatbot Comparison
- Document Collection: The 'Email as Database' Pattern
- LLM Collaboration and Reasoning -- Generative AI for Economic Research
- NotebookLM: Document-Grounded AI for Research
- Refine.ink: AI-Powered Referee Reports for Academic Papers
- Teaching AI Your Voice
- Using LLMs with Cursor: Modern AI for Economics Research
Claude Code Skills & Advanced Workflows¶
See also: Claude Code Skills & Advanced Workflows overview
- A Real CLAUDE.md -- Annotated Example
- AI Research Feedback Skills
- Build Your Own
- Building Skills
- ChernyCode: Boris Cherny's Productivity Tips for AI-Assisted Coding
- Claude Code 16: The Memory Foam Mattress Theory of Claude Code
- Claude Code 33: Help Claude Help Us By Continue Learning
- Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 1)
- Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 2)
- Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 3): Creating Devil’s Advocate Agents
- Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 4): Boris Cherny, Claude Code's Origin, and Latent Knowledge
- Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 5): Challenges of Adopting Software Not Designed For Us
- Claude Code Part 13: Skills and the Split-PDF Workflow
- Claude Code Series (Part 10): Producing Highly Effective Decks for My Data Science Class
- Claude Code Series (Part 6): Video Explainer of Claude Code in Action
- Claude Code Series (Part 7): Making Beautiful Decks For My Future Self
- Claude Code Series (Part 9): Creating .bib Files and Automating Article Retrieval
- Claude Code Skills for Academic Researchers: A Practical Introduction
- Compilation, Categorization, and Multi-Year Review
- Continuous Improvement
- DAAF: Data Analyst Augmentation Framework
- Part 38: A Plug for Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's Markus Academy Series
- Skill Library
- Your CLAUDE.md
AI Agents & Agentic AI¶
See also: AI Agents & Agentic AI overview
- AI Agents -- Generative AI for Economic Research
- AI Agents for Economic Research (VoxDev Webinar)
- AI Agents for Economics Research
- Agentic Everything
- Agents vs Skills
- Claude Code 25: More Autonomous Agents Are Coming to Research
- Claude Code and What Comes Next
- Claude Code for Academics: An AI Agent for Empirical Research
- Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
- How to Encourage Adoption of AI Among Faculty: Experience, Cost, and the Killer Use Case
- Learn About AI Coding Agents
Data Analysis & Web Scraping¶
See also: Data Analysis & Web Scraping overview
- Claude Code 15: The Results Are In -- Can LLMs Replicate a PNAS Paper? (Part 2)
- Claude Code Part 14: I Asked Claude to Replicate a PNAS Paper Using OpenAI's Batch API (Part 1)
- Data Analysis: Claude Code for Economists with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Markus Academy Ep. 162-2)
- From EDGAR Filings to a Structured Database using Claude Code
- From an Empty Folder to a Figure using Claude Code
- Large Datasets and Structured Databases: Claude Code for Economists
- Large Datasets: Claude Code for Economists (Video)
- Web Scraping: Claude Code for Economists with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Markus Academy Ep. 162-3)
AI for Academic Research & Publishing¶
See also: AI for Academic Research & Publishing overview
- AI One-Shot Papers
- AI-Powered Pipeline to Stress-Test Research Ideas Before PhD Students Spend a Year on Them
- Applications of Generative AI for Economic Research
- Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?
- Claude Code 24: Multiple Agents Auditing Your Diff-in-Diff Code (Part 1)
- Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things
- Claude Code 29: Can Claude Code Find Facts? And If So, Should I Believe Them?
- Claude Code 32: A Modest Proposal for Editors
- Claude Code Part 12: How I Use Claude Code for Empirical Research
- Feedback Machines: Writing and editing research papers with generative AI
- Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists
- OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher
- Project APE: Can Policy Evaluation Be Automated?
- Prompts-to-Paper: Hedging the AI Singularity
- Reflections on Vibe Researching
- Research in the Time of AI
- Vibe Research, or How I Wrote an Academic Paper in Four Days
- When will the research paper disappear in economics?
Finance & Econometrics Applications¶
See also: Finance & Econometrics Applications overview
- AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship
- Claude Code WRDS Toolkit (piotrek-orlowski/claude-wrds-public)
- Seeking Collaboration to Test Automated Research in Finance
Prompt Engineering & Workflow Architecture¶
See also: Prompt Engineering & Workflow Architecture overview