Code Riff
one of us can't code. the other's been coding since he was 13. every episode, someone brings us a real problem - and we try to solve it with AI in one hour. live. no scripts. no safety net.
we talk through our prompts, we show you the mess, and we explain everything along the way. sometimes it works beautifully. sometimes it breaks. either way, you'll know enough to try it yourself.
messy real-world problems, solved with AI - so you can too.
hosted by eric tan and yaohong ch'ng (superuser hq).
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Code Riff
We Built an ESG News Bot in 1 Hour using Claude Code (Live)
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An ESG analyst at a bank spends her morning commutes reading news across Reuters, ESG News, and Financial Times, etc, then manually logging it into Excel and Word. She tried ChatGPT but got hallucinated headlines.
So we automated the whole thing in one hour using Claude Code from scratch, having fun while doing it together.
What you'll hear in this episode:
- A real sustainable finance analyst walking through her daily news workflow
- Building a Python news scraper live with little to no prior coding experience
- AI classifying articles into sustainable finance, policy, and country news
- Setting up a Telegram bot that delivers a formatted Word document daily
- Honest explanations of API keys, prompt injection, and context rot
- A conversation about AI in banking - augmenting jobs, not replacing them
Hosts: Eric Tan (non-technical builder) & Yaohong Ch'ng (engineer, Superuser HQ, ex-Stashaway head of Data)
Guest: Wachel - Sustainable Finance Analyst
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Tools from this episode:
- Claude Code: https://claude.ai
- Newsdata.io: https://newsdata.io
- Telegram (BotFather): https://t.me/BotFather
Connect with us:
- Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/
- Yaohong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/
- Superuser HQ: https://superuserhq.com/
- Email: code.riffs.ai@gmail.com
Code Riff - messy real-world problems, solved with AI, so you can too.