The File System Is the Collaboration
How I set up human–AI research partnerships — and the repo-to-collab skill that scaffolds them.
2026
Claude Code for Accounting Research: An Initial Discussion
A long-form Q&A I had while figuring out how to drop Claude Code into a real accounting-research project — literature PDFs, Python/SAS/R code, LaTeX writeups, Beamer slides, results, and all. Covers the four-tier CLAUDE.md hierarchy, skills, and how to organize the repo so the assistant actually knows where things live.
A Cobb–Douglas Production Function for Academia in the Age of AI
A back-of-envelope thought experiment: model academic output as \(Q = E \cdot G^{\alpha_G} \cdot L^{\alpha_L}\) — elite connections, good ideas, labor effort — and ask what happens when AI drives the cost of \(L\) to zero. The short answer: returns to \(G\) and \(E\) explode, the value of grinding collapses, and the structure of academic markets shifts in ways that look a lot like winner-take-all.
