Hands-on Claude Code and Codex workshops for turning research folders into agent-ready workflows.
Agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Codex are revolutionizing almost every part of economics research: data cleaning, replication, literature review, manuscript revision, referee responses, and how research teams coordinate.
But when economists first try to use these tools seriously, I consistently see the same adoption problems. The tools are powerful, but most guidance is written for software developers. Economists are left translating from examples that do not look like their actual work.
In the workshops, I teach economists how to use Claude Code and Codex to write Stata code, build slide decks, collaborate with coauthors, and organize their research folders.
I help you decide which agentic coding tool best fits your research workflow, and whether the benefits of using more than one tool are worth the costs.
Most economists have fixed research budgets, and they need to think about how to allocate them across themselves and their research assistants. I help you think through procurement decisions optimized for your research output.
A barrier to entry for economists is familiarizing themselves with an entirely new vocabulary: skills, MCPs, subagents, worktrees, rules files, context windows. I help direct your learning so you see immediate research gains without needing to sit through hours of theory.
Agentic coding tools allow economists to do in minutes the types of data cleaning, scraping, and econometric analyses that used to take days or weeks. I walk you through best practices with any programming language, including Stata, Python, and R.
Besides coding, much of economists' work is writing and thinking. I show you how to write in your voice, accelerate your responses to referees, and generate beautiful Beamer decks with complex TikZ figures in seconds.
A common practice in agentic coding for context window preservation is to create a plan before doing the work. I teach when this is worth doing, and best practices for creating the plan.
Skills are the foundational agentic coding topic of greatest use to economists. I show you how to install skills, how to make your own, and a few skills you can immediately plug in to your workflows.
Agentic coding shifts Git from an optional nuisance to an absolute necessity. I show you how agentic coding tools leverage Git, and how to use Git yourself without memorizing confusing concepts and commands.
I show you how to set up permissions so that agentic coding tools cannot accidentally delete your data, and I cover strategies for working with sensitive or restricted data with agentic coding tools.
Each topic can be taught in person or remotely, from a short talk to a hands-on workshop or deeper engagement.
A focused seminar or department talk that introduces how AI changes the day-to-day of empirical research. I can structure it around a short overview of the frontier, concrete demos from economics research, practical examples of Claude Code and Codex, and time for Q&A.
Pre-watch readings before each session, lectures grounded in real research patterns, and live work on a volunteer's actual project. The format that produced the testimonials below.
Short videos handle install and tool theater so live time goes to decisions, examples, and debugging.
A volunteer brings a real folder. We plan the attack, let the agent work, review the diff, encode the pattern.
Project rules, skills, and review loops so useful behavior survives beyond a single chat session.
Branches, permission rules, mock data, local workflows, and when not to send sensitive material to a model.
For organizations that need more than a workshop, I can help build the actual software, skills, MCPs, and research infrastructure your team needs. That might mean embedding with a research team over several weeks, creating internal tools for recurring data and literature workflows, helping PIs and RAs adopt agentic review patterns, or staying available on retainer as the tools change.
“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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“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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“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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“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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“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“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“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“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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