Research Specialist at Princeton University's Eviction Lab
R programmer & housing analyst
sarah
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I'm having insane success rates when I ask Claude to pretend to be a god-tier programmer from the 1960s with limited computer power.
Added more features, could tell there was a lot of overlap in functions, used the prompt again and Claude made a detailed refactoring plan that fully restructured the codebase, created general functions, and standardized the components that use them, instead of just surface level refactoring.
I like to use Ivan Sutherland & Scratchpad as an example, but YMMV. Trying to make a Rust tool, ran /simplify until Claude ran out of suggestions. Then started a new session with the aforementioned framing and he fixed bugs & cleaned logic while cutting ~100 lines overall.
Rising rents are leaving households with less income to pay for other needs, and inflation has also pushed up the cost of other necessities.
Our new paper finds that, after paying for rent, 2/3 of working-age renters cannot afford their basic needs.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/two-thi...
If you don't want Claude to load all this great #RStats content for each session, try asking Claude Code to deconstruct this content into distinct skills. On first pass it did not add required YAML headers, so needed second pass with those instructions. Here are the skills I ended up with.
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Jeremy Allen
Rising rents are squeezing renter households, leaving them with less residual income to pay for other needs. But inflation has also pushed up the cost
