Writing good STATA code was important for my academic career. It looks like that skill is largely becoming obsolete post Sonnet 4.6. (Also take this is as a notice to academics who still think of AI in terms of chatbots, not agents, that a lot has changed in a year) Paper: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145507)

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Uploading one-shotted AI "expositions" of one-shotted AI-generated papers is totally bonkers to me. What value do you think this has? And what do you think your contribution is, "access to buttons?"

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Good turn out at Wells tonight - i enjoyed my first ever talk at a literary festival.

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So I looked into this so called "literature" and it turns out its just 26 letters and a handful of symbols!

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