AI and agentic coding, filtered for economists.

AI is revolutionizing all aspects of economics, and it's impossible to keep up with all the changes. In The AI Economist newsletter, I sort through the frontier of agentic coding and AI for what's practically useful for economists.

“It's good. I promise” - AniketAniket Panjwani
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The core of the newsletter

Codex, Claude Code, model, harness, and tool updates only when they matter for economics research: data work, replications, paper writing, literature review, and research-team operations.

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What gets filtered out

I skip random AI updates which are only relevant for app builders/web developers, or impressive sounding model updates which aren't practically relevant to economists and their research.

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What still belongs

Economics of AI and AGI research appears when it helps economists understand the field, the profession, or the research opportunities created by these tools.

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What economists have to say about Aniket

Alex Tabarrok
Alex TabarrokProfessor of Economics and co-founder of Marginal Revolution
Tim de Silva
Tim de SilvaAssistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Alexander Kustov
Alexander KustovAssociate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Nick Tsivanidis
Nick TsivanidisAssistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley

Learning the frontier of agentic coding practices from Aniket has been a rewarding experience! Aniket is passionate about the topic and extremely knowledgeable. He has a talent for explaining complex topics clearly. Much of the content online about agentic coding is geared toward building apps, so having Aniket tailor the material to my specific needs was incredibly helpful.

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Gideon Bornstein
Gideon BornsteinAssistant Professor of Finance, Wharton

Aniket introduced me to a whole new magical world of agentic coding and helped me get up to speed far faster than I could have on my own. My productivity across many tasks skyrocketed, and my reliance on research assistants decreased substantially. I recommend Aniket 100% to any economist getting up to speed with agentic coding.

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Alexey Makarin
Alexey MakarinAssistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan

Aniket is an amazing teacher and showed me how to effectively incorporate Claude Code into my research. Highly recommended for any economist trying to level up their workflow. For economists working with messy data or complex empirical workflows, this is a productivity boom, and working with Aniket will pay immediate dividends.

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Arpit Gupta
Arpit GuptaAssociate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern

Aniket has quickly gotten me up to speed on Claude Code for applied microeconomics research. My comfort zone is Stata and Dropbox, but he's helped me learn to be effective in a terminal, which I would have never expected, and I'm starting to even use Claude Code to tackle bigger, structural projects which would have previously been infeasible for me. Aniket's really an expert at explaining the parts of agentic coding which are relevant for economists - I can't recommend him enough if you're looking to use these tools for social science.

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Heyu Xiong
Heyu XiongAssociate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Abdoulaye NdiayeAssistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern
Alex Tabarrok
Alex TabarrokProfessor of Economics and co-founder of Marginal Revolution
Tim de Silva
Tim de SilvaAssistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Alexander Kustov
Alexander KustovAssociate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Nick Tsivanidis
Nick TsivanidisAssistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley

Learning the frontier of agentic coding practices from Aniket has been a rewarding experience! Aniket is passionate about the topic and extremely knowledgeable. He has a talent for explaining complex topics clearly. Much of the content online about agentic coding is geared toward building apps, so having Aniket tailor the material to my specific needs was incredibly helpful.

Click to read full quote
Gideon Bornstein
Gideon BornsteinAssistant Professor of Finance, Wharton

Aniket introduced me to a whole new magical world of agentic coding and helped me get up to speed far faster than I could have on my own. My productivity across many tasks skyrocketed, and my reliance on research assistants decreased substantially. I recommend Aniket 100% to any economist getting up to speed with agentic coding.

Click to read full quote
Alexey Makarin
Alexey MakarinAssistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan

Aniket is an amazing teacher and showed me how to effectively incorporate Claude Code into my research. Highly recommended for any economist trying to level up their workflow. For economists working with messy data or complex empirical workflows, this is a productivity boom, and working with Aniket will pay immediate dividends.

Click to read full quote
Arpit Gupta
Arpit GuptaAssociate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern

Aniket has quickly gotten me up to speed on Claude Code for applied microeconomics research. My comfort zone is Stata and Dropbox, but he's helped me learn to be effective in a terminal, which I would have never expected, and I'm starting to even use Claude Code to tackle bigger, structural projects which would have previously been infeasible for me. Aniket's really an expert at explaining the parts of agentic coding which are relevant for economists - I can't recommend him enough if you're looking to use these tools for social science.

Click to read full quote
Heyu Xiong
Heyu XiongAssociate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Abdoulaye NdiayeAssistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern
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