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Ethan Mollick Says Writing STATA Code Is Becoming Obsolete
- Who
- Ethan Mollick
- What
- argues that AI agents are making STATA coding skills largely obsolete
What happened
Writing good STATA code was very important for my academic career. It looks like that skill is largely becoming obsolete. (Also take this as a notice to academics who still think of AI in terms of chatbots, not agents, that a lot has changed in a year)
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Ethan Mollick said AI agents appear to be making the ability to write good STATA code largely obsolete, a skill he described as very important to his academic career. He urged academics who still think of AI primarily as chatbots to recognize the shift toward agents, saying a lot has changed in a year.
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