Writing good STATA code was very important for my academic career. It looks like that skill is largely becoming obsolete. (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) https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/letting-ai-agents-write-econometric-code
Ethan Mollick says AI agents are making Stata coding skills obsolete
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Ethan Mollick says writing good Stata code was central to his academic career, but that skill is becoming largely obsolete. He argues academics still thinking of AI as chatbots rather than agents are missing how much has changed in a year. He links a CEPR column on letting AI agents write econometric code.
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