Claude really can roleplay an economist. I love this little comment Claude made after some robustness checks on the paper it wrote: 'On a 1–…

Claude really can roleplay an economist. I love this little comment Claude made after some robustness checks on the paper it wrote: "On a 1–10 identification scale, I'd now put the paper at about 4.5 — better than the 3.5 I'd have given before these tests, but well short of quasi-experimental (~7). The framing "conditional association consistent with…" is still the right calibration. I shouldn't claim causal identification." I had Opus 4.8 in Claude Code write a sophisticated, if minor, academic paper from a archive of hundreds of de-identified research files from years ago I had to use GPT-5.5 Pro as a reviewer, it spotted one major error & some minor points. Opus corrected https://embeddedness-grad…

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