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Let me know if you want a guest pass

I mean I would take one ...

Not sure what a guest pass gives. I'm on the ~£8 subscription and do keep hitting limits.

Spent an hour yesterday trawling through my old replication packages with Claude Code making a skill so it could write R like me. Weird naming conventions, idiosyncratic formatting preferences, etc. Strongly recommend.

What do you use it for - writing statistical code? (Genuine question, since I have mostly seen Claude Code mentioned for programming)

More detail please Paul

i think if you have a fun side project you want to test out, good use case to do it. E.g., "let's build a database that combines building permits and house price data"

Right, so last night I did this. Made a MSA-by-uyear database of 1) hpi 2) building permits 3) housing stock. Let it rip and it was done in about 21 minutes. See below if you want to see how it ran through it. paulgp.com/claude-code-... Repo is here: github.com/paulgp/housi...

Tbh just install it and ask it for more detail code.claude.com/docs/en/over...

I am skeptical of anything that lets the bot do more without more supervision. I feel like I do slower higher quality work with an LLM in chat mode, but the first pass is always wrong because of me or it. Letting it run wild for anything complicated seems like a recipe for disaster.

Your dashboard project seems like a great place for claude code, but writing a paper seems like a bad place to me. What has been your experience with it and research?

I tend to run analyses and make plots on my own without much aid. But data cleaning, harmonizing and munging is much faster with Claude, and that tends to be 90% of my job on a research project.