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How and why I am using hooks (part 1)
Don’t edit raw data
11 hrs ago
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scott cunningham
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“Memory is the residue of thought” and fixing that when working with AI agents
Yesterday was day one of a two day new faculty orientation at Harvard Kennedy school.
Aug 20
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scott cunningham
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Which stages of research production should we let AI Agents loose
Six months ago, it was both original and true to say that AI agents were capable of autonomously, start to finish, producing a manuscript of…
Aug 14
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scott cunningham
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My strategy for talks on agents for research
My preference for teaching new concepts in statistics and causal inference to people is like this.
Aug 10
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scott cunningham
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How to improve understanding with Claude Code
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham posted on his substack feed the other day a link to this interesting blog post by Geoffrey Litt called “Understanding is the new…
Aug 7
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scott cunningham
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July 2026
Prose is not constraints and other things I learned from Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's NBER talk on AI in empirical research
By mid-2026, I think many researchers understand that coding agents like Claude Code and Codex have dramatically reduced the marginal cost of producing…
Jul 30
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scott cunningham
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Which research mistakes matter for human capital?
And does it matter?
Jul 27
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scott cunningham
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Stale code, deprecation, and the canon
I think I first noticed I needed a structured workflow with using Claude Code when during a long project the analytical sample went from having N…
Jul 21
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scott cunningham
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Am I'm reading too much?
Some days I think I have adopted a new way of working with Claude Code that has revolutionized my entire life.
Jul 17
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scott cunningham
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Deriving the Value of these Claude Code Essays (and All Other Essays) using Claude Code Integration to Substack
Substack integrated Claude Code recently via an mcp (not sure if I used all of that correctly).
Jul 8
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scott cunningham
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Claude Code 56: Falling marginal costs of production, output, and aggregate errors
Returning home update
Jul 6
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scott cunningham
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June 2026
Claude Code 55: Beauty and story are key to my workflow harness
I think my harness-workflow is taking shape.
Jun 11
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scott cunningham
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