Economist replicates an academic paper with a research agent, 'almost zero' manual work
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-11
Economist John Horton shows how he replicated an academic paper by simply telling Expected Parrot's research agent 'I'd like to replicate this paper.' The agent produced a replication writeup and session that others can clone and build upon, with Horton noting the manual effort involved was 'almost none' — a concrete demo of research agents handling academic replication workflows end to end.
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