Source Timeline¶

All sources in the knowledge base, ordered chronologically by publication date.

2019¶

March 2019 — The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton

2023¶

September 2023 — Generative AI for Economic Research (JEL) — Anton Korinek

2024¶

November 2024 — Applications of Generative AI for Economic Research — Anton Korinek
December 2024 — AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship — Robert Novy-Marx & Mihail Velikov
December 2024 — LLM Collaboration and Reasoning — Anton Korinek

2025¶

April 2025 — Prompts-to-Paper: Hedging the AI Singularity — Andrew Y. Chen
April 15 — AI as Normal Technology — Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
August 2025 — AI Agents — Generative AI for Economic Research — Anton Korinek
November 2025 — Agentic Everything — Teddy Svoronos
December 13 — Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 1) — Scott Cunningham
December 19 — Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 2) — Scott Cunningham
December 2025 — Prompting Insights: Modern AI for Economics Research — Benjamin Golub
December 2025 — Refine.ink: AI-Powered Referee Reports — Benjamin Golub & Markus Brunnermeier
December 2025 — The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients — Ethan Mollick
December 2025 — Using LLMs with Cursor — Benjamin Golub & Markus Brunnermeier

2026¶

January¶

January 1 — Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 3) — Scott Cunningham
January 3 — Reflections on Vibe Researching — Joshua Gans
January 7 — Claude Code and What Comes Next — Ethan Mollick
January 11 — Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 4) — Scott Cunningham
January 12 — Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 5) — Scott Cunningham
January 14 — Part 6: Video Explainer — Scott Cunningham
January 17 — Part 7: Making Beautiful Decks — Scott Cunningham
January 22 — Feedback Machines — Claes Backman
January 24 — Part 9: .bib Files and Article Retrieval — Scott Cunningham
January 29 — Part 10: Lecture Decks — Scott Cunningham
January 30 — Part 11: Deck Prompt — Scott Cunningham

February¶

February 2 — Part 12: Empirical Research Workflow — Scott Cunningham
February 3 — Part 13: Skills and Split-PDF — Scott Cunningham
February 5 — Part 14: PNAS Replication (Part 1) — Scott Cunningham
February 6 — Part 15: PNAS Replication Results — Scott Cunningham
February 8 — Part 16: Memory Foam Mattress Theory — Scott Cunningham
February 10 — Part 17: Zero Profit Condition — Scott Cunningham
February 11 — ChernyCode — Antonio Mele
February 17 — A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era — Ethan Mollick
February 17 — Part 21: Faculty Adoption — Scott Cunningham
February 19 — Part 21: Attention and Congestion — Scott Cunningham
February 25 — Part 24: Agents Auditing DiD Code — Scott Cunningham
February 26 — Claude Code Adoption (X Post) — Chris Blattman
February 26 — From Claude Code Skeptic to Power User — Chris Blattman
February 26 — Man-Computer Symbiosis and AI in Research — Alex Imas
February 26 — Part 25: Autonomous Agents — Scott Cunningham
February 26 — Vibe Research — Vincent Gregoire
February 27 — Claude Code WRDS Toolkit — Piotrek Orlowski
February 2026 — How to Encourage Adoption of AI Among Faculty — Scott Cunningham
February 2026 — Something Big Is Happening — Matt Shumer

March¶

March 2 — Academics Need to Wake Up on AI — Alexander Kustov
March 2 — Part 27: Research and Publishing — Scott Cunningham
March 3 — The Train Has Left the Station — Solomon Messing & Joshua Tucker
March 4 — Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part II — Alexander Kustov
March 4 — Claude Code as Project Manager — Panos Ipeirotis
March 5 — Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? — David Karpf
March 5 — How Do Scientists Use Claude Code? — Charles Yang
March 5 — Part 29: Can Claude Code Find Facts? — Scott Cunningham
March 11 — Part 31: The Satisfaction in Discovering — Scott Cunningham
March 12 — AI Agents for Economic Research (VoxDev) — Aniket Panjwani
March 12 — AI Agents for Economics Research (Slides) — Aniket Panjwani
March 12 — AI-Powered Pipeline to Stress-Test Research Ideas — Alejandro Lopez-Lira
March 13 — Part 32: A Modest Proposal for Editors — Scott Cunningham
March 16 — Research in the Time of AI — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 18 — Claude Code for Academics — Alessandro Spina
March 19 — Part 33: Help Claude Help Us — Scott Cunningham
March 20 — OpenAI and the Fully Automated Researcher — Will Douglas Heaven
March 21 — AI One-Shot Papers — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 22 — Automated Research in Finance — Alejandro Lopez-Lira
March 22 — Every Claude Code Hack I Know — Matt Van Horn
March 22 — LLMs Haven't Raised NBER Papers Above Trend — Arin Dube
March 23 — When Will the Research Paper Disappear? — Tyler Cowen
March 24 — Twelve Arguments for Traditional Higher Education — Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
March 28 — Data Analysis: Claude Code for Economists — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 28 — Getting Started: Claude Code for Economists — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 28 — Web Scraping: Claude Code for Economists — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 29 — From an Empty Folder to a Figure — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 29 — From EDGAR Filings to a Structured Database — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 29 — Getting Started: Researcher's Setup Guide — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 31 — Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces — Ethan Mollick
March 2026 — A Real CLAUDE.md — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Academic Tax Basics — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Agents vs Skills — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — AI for Professionals Who Don't Code — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — AI Project Folders — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — AI Research Feedback Skills — Claes Backman
March 2026 — Architecture Patterns — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Awesome Econ AI Stuff — Antonio Mele
March 2026 — Build Your Own — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Building an AI Executive Assistant — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Building Skills — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Chatbot Essentials — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Chatbots Done Right — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — ChatGPT vs Claude — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Claude Code for Newbies — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Compilation & Multi-Year Review — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Continuous Improvement — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — DAAF Framework — Brian Heseung Kim
March 2026 — Document Collection — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Example: Noise Canceling — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Example: Project Dashboard — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Example: Research Design — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Install Claude Code (Mac) — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Install Claude Code (Windows) — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Learn About AI Coding Agents — Antonio Mele
March 2026 — MCP Setup — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Meeting Transcription — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — My Claude Code Setup — Pedro Sant'Anna
March 2026 — NotebookLM — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Patterns — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Privacy & Setup Decisions — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Project APE — Social Catalyst Lab
March 2026 — Project Management with AI — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Prompt Engineering — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Prompt, Plan, Review, Revise — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Set Up VS Code — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Skill Library — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Starter Templates — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Stress-Test Any Plan — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Teaching AI Your Voice — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — The Cost Reality — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Using Claude Code for Tax Season — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Voice Dictation — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — What AI Got Wrong — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — When to Get Help — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Workflow Overview — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Workflows — Chris Blattman
March 2026 — Claude Container: A Complete Beginner's Guide — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
March 2026 — Your CLAUDE.md — Chris Blattman

April¶

April 1 — Claude Code Skills for Academic Researchers — Alessandro Spina
April 3 — Some Thoughts on AI and Research — Isaiah Andrews
April 5 — Large Datasets and Structured Databases — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
April 5 — Large Datasets: Claude Code for Economists (Video) — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
April 5 — Part 38: A Plug for Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's Markus Academy Series — Scott Cunningham
April 6 — AI for Business & Economic Research: From Chatbots to Agents — Mihail Velikov
April 11 — Writing & Thinking with AI Assistance — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
April 12 — Writing & Thinking: Claude Code for Economists (Markus Academy 162-5) — Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
April 13 — What Will Be Scarce? — Alex Imas
April 14 — The AI People Have Been Right a Lot — Dylan Matthews
April 15 — Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III — Alexander Kustov
April 16 — AI is Already 10x-ing Academic Research — Andy Hall
April 16 — coarse.ink: Open-Source AI Academic Paper Reviewer — David Van Dijcke
April 17 — AI, Ideas, and the Future of Research (Deck) — Fatih Kansoy
April 18 — ai-asset-pricing: Empirical Asset Pricing Tools — Alexander M. Dickerson
April 22 — Thinking with Agents (UVM Agentic AI Bootcamp) — Erkmen G. Aslim & Emily Beam
April 22 — Agentic AI Bootcamp — Session 1: From Chat to Autonomous Agents — Erkmen G. Aslim & Emily Beam
April 23 — Part 44: My Four Criteria for Using Agents (Referee Reports) — Scott Cunningham
April 23 — Sign of the Future: GPT-5.5 — Ethan Mollick
April 2026 — ralph-wiggum-asset-pricing: Open-Source Loop for Generating Asset Pricing Papers — Andrew Y. Chen
April 2026 — Claude Code WRDS Toolkit (Liu fork) — Siyang Liu
April 2026 — Claude Code in VS Code — For Academic Economists — Claes Bäckman
April 25 — ZeroPaper Gallery: Papers Produced by an Autonomous Research Pipeline — Alejandro Lopez-Lira
April 27 — Agentic AI Bootcamp — Session 2: Research Workflows, Teaching & Applications — Erkmen G. Aslim & Emily Beam

May¶

May 2 — OpenAI Codex Full Course (4 Hours): Build & Ship — Aniket Panjwani
May 5 — Academic Research Skills for Claude Code (ARS) — Edward Cheng-I Wu
May 7 — Claude Code 101 for Academic Researchers — Mushtaq Bilal
May 7 — Claude Code 102 for Academic Researchers — Mushtaq Bilal
May 13 — Codex 101 for Academic Researchers — Mushtaq Bilal
May 15 — Codex 102 for Academic Researchers — Mushtaq Bilal
May 2026 — Academic Research Skills for Codex (ARS-Codex) — Edward Cheng-I Wu
May 2026 — KatmerCode: Claude Code inside Obsidian — Halil Kaan Canan
May 2026 — MY580: Agentic AI for Social Science and Data Science Research — Daniel de Kadt
May 1 — ZeroPaper: Enhanced AI-Assisted Research Template with Agentic Capabilities — Alejandro Lopez-Lira
May 1 — ZeroPaper: An Autonomous Research System (paper) — Alejandro Lopez-Lira
May 2026 — EDHEC Master Class: Using AI for Research — Mihail Velikov

March (papers)¶

March 3 — Why No One Can Agree About AI Progress Right Now — Brian Heseung Kim
March 21, 2026 — Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion — James Evans, Benjamin Bratton & Blaise Agüera y Arcas
April 2026 (working paper) — Read the Paper, Write the Code: Agentic Reproduction of Social-Science Results — Kohler, Zollikofer, Einsiedler, Hoyle & Ash (ETH)

2026 (date not specified)¶

Point by Point: Guided R&R Response Letters — Abhishek Nagaraj
Reviewer: A Reproducible Multi-Agent Reviewer for Economics Papers — Ingar Haaland
WorldSeed: A Multi-Agent World Engine for Emergent Outcomes — Jie Ding

Summary Statistics¶

Total sources: 177
Date range: March 2019 – May 2026
Peak activity: March 2026 (84 sources)
Most prolific authors: Chris Blattman (44), Scott Cunningham (28), Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (13), Mushtaq Bilal (4), Ethan Mollick (5)