Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 1)

Or How I Paid $200/Month for an AI Coding Agent. I’m Never Going Back.

I think this will be a multi-part series about using Claude Code because there’s too much to cover in one post. So this is part 1.

Introduction

I’ve been an economist doing empirical work since around 2005, when I started my dissertation for graduate school. I started grad school in 2002, that is, but the actual empirical work was with the National Lon…