Research Methods
11 articles
From Spoken Words to Countable Data: Meet ATLAS
A fast, private way to organize transcripts, count patterns, and trace every quote right on your laptop.
Claude Code starter kit for economists
Seven starter resources for carrying project instructions and verification routines into later Claude Code sessions, with guarded installation steps.
A Pre-Analysis Plan for Your Coding Agent
A three-layer architecture, rule, gate, and verification, for keeping an AI coding agent disciplined, and why trained priors beat a system prompt.
What Agents Actually Do (And What They Don't)
A conceptual framework for specification-bounded research agents. Its linked timing example is article-reported, not a public workflow benchmark.
What We Mistake for AI Capability
A hypothesis about how task tolerance and specification shape perceived AI capability, with a controlled comparison still to run.
Research Phases Need Different Prompts
Exploration, implementation, and documentation require different AI prompting strategies. Match the prompt to the phase.
The Verification Tax: Every AI Output Needs Checking
Every AI output needs checking. Building verification into the research workflow to catch fabricated citations and errors before they compound.
Context Window Budgeting: Treating Tokens as a Finite Resource
Treating an AI context window as a finite budget: when to spawn sub-agents, when to work directly, and how to keep a long session from degrading.
End-of-Session Hygiene: What to Capture Before Context Resets
What to capture before an AI context window resets, and how five minutes of end-of-session notes saves twenty minutes rebuilding context tomorrow.
Antigravity Research Graphics Workflow
A practical workflow for using Antigravity image generation to explore a figure layout while keeping the final quantitative graphic reproducible in code.
The Cold Start Problem: Why the First Five Minutes Matter Most
Why the first five minutes of an AI coding session matter most, and how a CLAUDE.md context file solves the cold-start problem before work begins.