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Ethan Mollick says AI agents are making Stata coding skills obsolete

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Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor, says writing good Stata code was central to his academic career but is now largely obsolete.

He argues that academics who still treat AI as a chatbot rather than an agent are missing how much has changed in a year. He points to a CEPR column on letting AI agents write econometric code. This is Mollick's opinion, posted on X on October 19, 2026, and the report does not include data on how well AI agents perform this work.

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    Ethan Mollick says AI agents are making Stata coding skills obsolete

    AIEthan 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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