Claude Code 15: The Results Are In: Can LLMs Replicate a PNAS Paper? (Part 2)
69% agreement, $11, and 2.6 hours later
TL;DR
I used gpt-4o-mini to replicate the text classification from Card et al.’s PNAS paper on 140 years of immigration rhetoric. Here’s what happened:
Total Cost of this Exercise: $10.99
Total Time: 1 hour set up (yesterday’s video), 2.6 hours (we expected 24), 1 hour of analysis today = 4.6 hours.
Agreement with original classifier: 69%
Key finding: The po…
