Alexander Kustov

I don't think it's a fair assessment of the situation. Have a good day.

As an antidote to the clickbait boosterist nonsense flying around BlueSky about LLMs replacing human social scientists already, here is an actual serious article about the use of GenAI in social science research.

I... agree?
bsky.app/profile/akou...

Thank you for your constructive feedback. I hope you have a good evening.

Nice. I saw this paper before it was cool :)

My take on the partisan expressive responding literature is now in print. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Genuine question: why do anonymous accounts always feel the need to be this negative? Go outside, enjoy your evening.

You can just ask Claude Code to do this using the Claude Chrome extension. I did it more as an experiment since it doesn't seem to save much time compared to doing it manually, at least not yet.

Can I just commend @jatucker.bsky.social and @solmg.bsky.social for writing a much better version of my viral argument for academics to wake up on agentic AI—with concrete use examples, no unnecessary provocation or AI-generated text, and a more constructive vision for the future.

Read it!

Google Trends chart showing interest in commercial coding agents increasing dramatically in early 2026

You can just research things. New from @jatucker.bsky.social & me at @brookings: Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex will likely accelerate research AND undermine institutional structures we built to support it.

Thanks for this thread, very insightful. And I appreciate a constructive reply.

I didn't edit the post I saw being generated before posting it, but added a few changes afterwards. It's really not that crazy if you think about it for a bit.

I did, but decided not to change anything.

What do you think?

lol

I'm sorry if this post (or reading it) offended you in any way. Genuinely. That was not my intention.

I respect that—research gives much joy too. But I also want to know the truth about how migration works so more people can flourish.

We still know so little. I don't care if an important finding comes from a human or AI, as long as it's accurate. Our job is to move the frontier, not self-actualize

Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future

Interesting papers and posts on AI. Robert Frank is about to get very fashionable (again?).

Social Dynamics of AI Adoption --> www.nber.org/papers/w34488

causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...

Yes! We should all be thinking and discussing this now. Not tomorrow. I don't have any solutions yet, but I'm working on it.

I edited it slightly after posting. I added the period that you catched, the Cairo thing, and a few people to acknowledge that Claude forgot to include.

I also do have a detailed style guide in the folder trained on my own writing, with preferences on the use of em dashes and such. I don't have anything on using periods, though this was certainly a bit weird.

Sure thing. I use the native Claude app on Windows connected to my GitHub, and ask Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to do things following procedures I've established in claude. md. In this case, I asked it to put together a ~10 theses post based on my previous social media takes, and post it on substack.

Yes!

That's fair, Rachel. I probably overplayed the provocation and underplayed the nuance. But if this nudges my colleague across the hall -- who was recently amused that AI can now make slide decks -- to try Claude Code and rethink their research workflow, I'll take it as a win.

It was based on my earlier personal take from twitter, so I can certainly personally own it :)

Hm... thanks for catching this. I have not instructed Claude to make any mistakes. It may be an omission from their Chrome browser extension, I guess?

For the sake of transparency since I’ve been talking this thing up, a false negative:

LOL

LOL

I personally plan to be 100% transparent about my own workflow. The question is whether the discipline will be too.