Economist: agentic coding lets you write your own Fortran optimizers, not just ask for Stata packages
Apoorva__Lal · x · 2026-10-13
Apoorva Lal argues that with agentic coding, economists can learn mathematical optimization on demand and write their own optimizers in Fortran instead of begging for ready-made Stata packages. He laments the bimodal "computeracy" of older generations of scientists, noting Hall spun a grad school idea into a startup 50+ years before it was fashionable — and urges economists to free their minds from regression with fixed effects.
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