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2025

We don't own data. But empower those who do or those who have it
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 "robotics"

Humanoid robots are a waste of money

June 25, 2025 · 4 min read

Why the obsession around humanoid robots?

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