Tim de SilvaAssistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Aniket Panjwani
PhD Economics, Northwestern
About Aniket
I help knowledge workers make the most of AI. I’ve taught agentic coding with Claude Code and Codex to over 500 economists across group and individual sessions, and to thousands more through my YouTube channel (>10k subscribers).
My AI training clients span academia (e.g. MIT’s economics department), the public sector (e.g. the Central Bank of Germany), and publicly traded firms (which I can’t name).
I also help my clients directly with AI strategy and implementation. This may involve leading strategy sessions with senior leadership, but it can also involve me developing hardened, mission-critical software for my clients.
At Zelle, I led teams of ML engineers and data scientists to develop new products on systems with terabytes of data from hundreds of financial institutions. I also developed from 0→1 the risk model and infrastructure for Payslice as their Director of AI and ML.
AI Economist
My sessions are highly individualized to the needs of my clients. For the UK’s Office of National Statistics, I delivered a one hour overview of AI in economics to their 200 economists with a demo generating a typical ONS report.
For Opportunity Insights at Harvard, I spent an entire week in person with OI in Cambridge, MA, conducting workshops, labs, and 1 on 1 meetings to identify bottlenecks in OI’s work.
Economists I’ve worked with
Case study of an engagement with Opportunity Insights at Harvard. I spent one week conducting agentic coding workshops with ~50 economics professors, researchers, and pre-docs. I also helped define OI's AI strategy, and I provided implementation support on select internal AI tooling.
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Opportunity InsightsAI strategy and implementation
“Aniket introduced me to a whole new magical world of agentic coding and helped me get up to speed far faster than I could have on my own. My productivity across many tasks skyrocketed, and my reliance on research assistants decreased substantially. I recommend Aniket 100% to any economist getting up to speed with agentic coding.”
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Alexey MakarinAssistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan
“Learning the frontier of agentic coding practices from Aniket has been a rewarding experience! Aniket is passionate about the topic and extremely knowledgeable. He has a talent for explaining complex topics clearly. Much of the content online about agentic coding is geared toward building apps, so having Aniket tailor the material to my specific needs was incredibly helpful.”
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Gideon BornsteinAssistant Professor of Finance, Wharton
Nick TsivanidisAssistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
“Aniket is an amazing teacher and showed me how to effectively incorporate Claude Code into my research. Highly recommended for any economist trying to level up their workflow. For economists working with messy data or complex empirical workflows, this is a productivity boom, and working with Aniket will pay immediate dividends.”
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Arpit GuptaAssociate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
“The fact that Aniket gears the material specifically to economists rather than to a generic technical audience makes a huge difference. I would strongly recommend the course to any economics department, and honestly to any social scientist.”
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Joseph Flavian GomesAssociate Professor of Economics, IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain
“Aniket has quickly gotten me up to speed on Claude Code for applied microeconomics research. My comfort zone is Stata and Dropbox, but he's helped me learn to be effective in a terminal, which I would have never expected, and I'm starting to even use Claude Code to tackle bigger, structural projects which would have previously been infeasible for me. Aniket's really an expert at explaining the parts of agentic coding which are relevant for economists - I can't recommend him enough if you're looking to use these tools for social science.”
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Heyu XiongAssociate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
Alex TabarrokProfessor of Economics and co-founder of Marginal Revolution
Alexander KustovAssociate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Abdoulaye NdiayeAssistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern
Case study of an engagement with Opportunity Insights at Harvard. I spent one week conducting agentic coding workshops with ~50 economics professors, researchers, and pre-docs. I also helped define OI's AI strategy, and I provided implementation support on select internal AI tooling.
Read the case study →Opportunity InsightsAI strategy and implementation
Tim de SilvaAssistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Aniket introduced me to a whole new magical world of agentic coding and helped me get up to speed far faster than I could have on my own. My productivity across many tasks skyrocketed, and my reliance on research assistants decreased substantially. I recommend Aniket 100% to any economist getting up to speed with agentic coding.”
Click to read full quoteAlexey MakarinAssistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan
“Learning the frontier of agentic coding practices from Aniket has been a rewarding experience! Aniket is passionate about the topic and extremely knowledgeable. He has a talent for explaining complex topics clearly. Much of the content online about agentic coding is geared toward building apps, so having Aniket tailor the material to my specific needs was incredibly helpful.”
Click to read full quoteGideon BornsteinAssistant Professor of Finance, Wharton
Nick TsivanidisAssistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
“Aniket is an amazing teacher and showed me how to effectively incorporate Claude Code into my research. Highly recommended for any economist trying to level up their workflow. For economists working with messy data or complex empirical workflows, this is a productivity boom, and working with Aniket will pay immediate dividends.”
Click to read full quoteArpit GuptaAssociate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
“The fact that Aniket gears the material specifically to economists rather than to a generic technical audience makes a huge difference. I would strongly recommend the course to any economics department, and honestly to any social scientist.”
Click to read full quoteJoseph Flavian GomesAssociate Professor of Economics, IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain
“Aniket has quickly gotten me up to speed on Claude Code for applied microeconomics research. My comfort zone is Stata and Dropbox, but he's helped me learn to be effective in a terminal, which I would have never expected, and I'm starting to even use Claude Code to tackle bigger, structural projects which would have previously been infeasible for me. Aniket's really an expert at explaining the parts of agentic coding which are relevant for economists - I can't recommend him enough if you're looking to use these tools for social science.”
Click to read full quoteHeyu XiongAssociate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
Alex TabarrokProfessor of Economics and co-founder of Marginal Revolution
Alexander KustovAssociate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Abdoulaye NdiayeAssistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern
Institute for Progress
I’m also the first member of technical staff at the Institute for Progress, a think tank in Washington, DC, dedicated to accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress. In this role, I develop software to magnify and scale IFP’s work, develop IFP’s AI strategy, and train IFP researchers on using AI.
Research & EconNow
My research has been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Information Economics and Policy.
My work on EconNow, a directory of economics job market candidates, was awarded an Emergent Ventures grant from the Mercatus Center (via Tyler Cowen) in 2025.
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