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2026

My learning system for keeping up with AI
OpenBB is shutting down and going open source
How Theta Data serves the entire US Options market from four racks
Introducing WorkspaceBench to evaluate OpenBB Workspace for agentic workflows
Introducing OpenBB Workspace Lite for small investment teams
New iframe widget connects your existing apps with AI Agents inside OpenBB
I Compared MNIST-Style Digits Across Languages. Mandarin Chinese Was 4x Harder to Separate
Data is THE moat
The Model Did What I Rewarded, Not What I Wanted
Long-running agents & SLMs embedded in your product
Introducing Workspace MCP: agentic financial workflows, governed by design
Codex beats ChipWits
Why an Apps Marketplace for a Financial Workspace
I built my own outreach system because AI sucks
Fragmentation kills Alpha
15 reasons why Streamlit doesn't work for production
How did we end up here?
APIs for Analytics, MCP for Point-in-Time Data
Pokemon TCG Lore
Introducing Skills. Define playbooks for your AI agents.
You can't prompt your way to an AI Bloomberg Terminal
My AI agent wrote a research paper about the code it wrote
I built an AI Agent that builds OpenBB Apps, from inside OpenBB
The era of on-demand software
No Room to Hide
No financial terminal will survive.
What if you could create any report - right where your data lives?
The context wars in financial services
Learn how to let an agent build your dream app whilst you sleep
How you can build and share a Claude Code skill
How I turned days of developer training into a skill you can use in minutes
2026: The Year of Consolidation
Chat is not the future interface. It's the future router.
I'm scared
Joining C-MORE as an advisor
Building a Pokemon Card Price Estimator with Claude Code

2025

Podcast takeover
I built a Claude Skill that turns podcasts into shareable clips
The bitter lesson of context metadata
Your AI team isn't doing AI. They're rebuilding infrastructure.
Introducing OSOR Agent
The rise of forward-deployed engineering in finance
Why generative AI isn't uncovering alpha yet
Rethinking the financial interface in the age of data and intelligence abundance
The hidden incentive war behind financial terminals
The Evolution of AI Agents in Finance
The trampoline job - Optimize your career for growth
How I built an MCP Server for developers building OpenBB apps
Tracking your partner's health stats with Oura and AI
Fine-tuning a LLM on my blog posts
Top 10 OpenBB apps
Can I create a 1 min Ad on my own with zero video editing skills?
Using Claude Code in God Mode
OpenBB Workspace + MCP - The platform play I can’t stop thinking about
What if... you could access an OpenBB widget on Excel?
Are you team MCP Client or Server?
Can we kill the term "vibe coding"?
Is Prompt Engineering dead? The case for Test-Driven AI Development
Finance's OceanGate moment - The AI adoption disaster waiting to happen
Bring back your corner of the internet
Humanoid robots are a waste of money
I can't believe I recommended Replit instead of Cursor
My feelings about AI companions
I just tested Dia browser, and I have thoughts
How I connected Figma to Cursor using MCP
Not your typical data vendor
OpenBB is underrated
SEC filings to uncover and track financial and economic indicators
Introducing OpenBB Apps, tailored by users for optimized workflows
10,000 followers later, here’s where it all began
Stop building AI products, start building workflows
One data vendor to rule them all. Really?
OpenBB enables streamlined Client Advisory AI workflow
Doing my first Half Marathon
The $10 trillion OpenBB Copilot validation
Proactive Agents Are the Future of AI in Finance
My key takeaways from Institutional Investor conference
Building a custom widget for my friends newsletter
How function calling and context-aware AI shapes OpenBB
UI layer is the next big frontier
Long live long context with Gemini
What it means to have skin in the game
Building a developer friendly interface for financial analysts
Turn my blog feed into a QA dataset to fine-tune a LLM
There's a zero percent chance that open source doesn't win
The cost of building software is plummeting to zero
Tracking my writing progress through an open source blog tracker generator
Building an AI agent from scratch that can post on bluesky

2024

AI chatbots won't revolutionize finance, but intelligent workspaces will
OpenBB and our global reach since leaving beta
Why AI analysts need human-like workspaces, not just chat interfaces
Today I saw a glimpse of the future
Why we got rid of PIPs at OpenBB
Implement feedback loops EVERYWHERE you can
OpenBB Mobile App - Coming soon
ChatGPT and The Future of AI in Finance
Why I love boxing
What I learned in 3 Years at OpenBB
Why AI Will Replace Jobs in Finance and How You Should Prepare
Inspired by Bia - How her fight against cancer changed my life
My first-hand experience on AI impacting education through Perplexity, Cursor and ChatGPT
Why chat-only AI financial assistants are not the future
29 years old and sitting on the top of giants
rabbit r1, there is hope
Goh Analyst - The AI-powered financial analyst who lives on Slack
Moving countries and starting a company ain't so different
Moving from London to the Bay Area and what changed
OpenBB Copilot is now available to all Terminal Pro users
12 things I learned in 2023
Introducing the OpenBB Add-in for Excel
SlackGPT - Your Slack bot that summarizes unread messages
Building my personal website in Docusaurus
Prediction for 2024

2023

Creating an AI-powered financial analyst
The new FinAI Tech Stack
Goodbye OpenBB SDK. Hello OpenBB Platform
OpenBB Bot - our new addition to the OpenBB open source family
Revolutionizing AI at OpenBB with new leader, Michael Struwig
Writing documentation, as a founder, is underrated.
Building the world’s investment research infrastructure
A $500k bet to build the best platform to do AI using financial data
Work-life balance is bullsh*t
Target Market Analysis with the help of LLMs
OpenBB 2 year anniversary
How to handle equity top-ups at a seed stage startup
How to handle equity at a seed-stage startup from Silicon Valley
Keep track of your startup metrics using a custom iOS widget
How to Use OpenAI to Extract Insights from Team Survey
Why the need for an open source investment research platform?
From Open Source to Open Startup
Employees are leaving? Be proactive about employee feedback
Hybrid work sucks. It’s worse than remote and office.
Become an OpenBB Champion
Streamline your OpenBB Terminal experience with OpenBB Hub
OpenBB Terminal 3.0 - a new interactive way to analyze data
Leaving London to live in San Francisco
Fully free financial chatbot
Free investment research ecosystem to consistently beat the market
The role of AI and OpenBB in the future of investment research
How I Used OpenAI API to improve our product documentation
How to get hired by an exciting tech startup in 2023
Financial chat bots are underrated, and here’s why.
Firing sucks. How to avoid doing so by hiring A players.

2022

How ChatGPT allowed me to leverage Twitter API 10x faster
How I wrote a machine learning paper in 1 week that got accepted to International Conference in Machine Learning Applications
The future of finance with open source and AI
Bloomberg Terminal is no more. OpenBB Terminal 2.0 has just been released.
Sweepstake World Cup 2022 for your startup team
5 steps I used to change my job title in less than 1 year
How to grow your open source community from scratch
How to learn 10x faster than average
Twitter thread to LinkedIn carousel in python
How I would do due diligence on $AMT using OpenBB Terminal
Stop doing your CV in Word or LaTeX
Why you should drop yfinance API and adopt OpenBB SDK
How I became CEO of OpenBB
Web3, symbols and community
Remote + Flexible work >> Salary
Looking for a new tattoo? OpenBB has you covered… literally.
How I created the best discord meme bot
Meet the most advanced investment research platform
UX/UI is better than features

2021

Sector and Industry Analysis — Gamestonk Terminal
Handing your twitter account to your most avid community member
The Start of my Machine Learning journey
An unusual journey learning about NNs for a PhD thesis
How I created a bot in python to participate in NFT giveaways
Gamestonk Terminal — Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Time-Series CrossValidation for NN
Ranking 99 Mind f*ck movies
K-means algorithm to visit a new city
Minion Recipes Program
Household bills Program
My journey of memorising a deck of 52 shuffled cards
Customizable Meme Filter
NeistPoint Project
Move over Bloomberg Terminal, here comes Gamestonk Terminal
Momentum Football Bets
Gamestonk Terminal - The next best thing after Bloomberg Terminal

One post tagged with "moats"

Data is THE moat

June 21, 2026 · 9 min read

Proprietary data, client data, and the context from using these.

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