What Brad DeLong thinks about Python
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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Their words“Here is the number” and “here is the proper context for the number” are things that are doable at a human-scale level of reliability by MAMLMs vibe-coding python scripts and then stitching them together with the appropriate boilerplate words. That is going to change the economics profession profoundly