I'm a financial illiterate. I am no good with money and have never really invested in anything other than one piece of property in my life. But I was thinking, is there a way to identify high-growth companies and be able to predict their ability to stay as leaders and invest in them. What would be the benchmarks and metrics to measure their worth on?
So I wanted to try and create a dashboard, which will tell me at a glance a sort of a health-check, whether a particular company is doing well or not.
I chose Gemini 3's thinking model for this. Apparently it “solves complex problems”. But my problem isn't really complex, I just wanted a python script calling an API and visualization using Streamlit.
Here's my starting prompt
what are the key indicators of companies when evaluating their business growth potential and revenue model, and what kind of competitive analysis data should I collect to compare similar companies to separate the winners from the losers
I put Claude Sonnet 4.6 to the test by asking it help me build a Telegram Bot. I've always wanted to build a bot like that, and now it's possible. Yay. First I looked at all the possible real-time datasets on rainfall in Singapore, then zoomed in on the one from data.gov.sg by NEA. So here's my starting prompt:-
Hi, I would like to create a telegram bot called theraincheck_bot, which will send a message when there's rain approaching 30 minutes from the time sent. It will check real-time data from the API from data.gov.sg, NEA's realtime rainfall data. The country is Singapore and users can specify which part of Singapore they want to check, for example, downtown, yishun, woodlands, etc. What programming language should I use and how should I start building this?
Claude then proceeded to break down the steps I need to build it. Guided me through:
– libraries to install
– how to call the NEA API
– how to create a bot on Telegram using @botfather
– how to host my files on AWS Lightsail
– taught me how to secure my files
– helped me tweak the code to incorporate my new requests, like wording changes, logic updates (I wanted the user to be able to ping the bot for on-demand rainchecks vs just being ping'd are scheduled intervals)
The whole experience just took one day and another half a day for tweaks.
It's simply mind-boggling that AI developments changes on a daily basis, whether it's “who's built a new app?”, or “new AI model release!”, and “[insert job title here] is obsolete!“, there's never a boring day with AI news. Currently the two podcasts that I'm listening to are:
The AI Daily Brief – provides daily updates on daily AI news. Very current and informative.
AI & I – showcases how people and companies are leveraging AI for their work and personal lives.
Starting today I plan to document all that I've done with AI, whether it was helping me with troubleshooting, or giving advice or guidance, I will try to write some of the significant ones down here to share my journey. I hope it can inspire you to do your own prompts. Sound interesting?
Ok, let's begin from Jan 2026, where I used Claude more often ...
I've built my career on the wave of digital transformation. When I came back to Singapore in 2008, she was just figuring out what social media and Web 2.0 was. Me back then, hell, I was all about digital and social media, and very easily I was able to help companies migrate their systems, not sitting in IT, but in marketing and communications. Everywhere I went, it was convincing leadership about what SEO was, what content marketing was, what social media accounts to create, what is email marketing, what is inbound marketing, is cloud hosting safe, the list goes on. As I write this I could feel an adrenaline rush while remembering those moments, it was definitely an exciting time. I went from a web developer to creating a small agency, and then to the client-side, working with the agencies to scale digital and social media.
I've always been told I have “too many interests” and why don't I just “stick to one thing”. I have a business idea every month, a new hobby every other week, etc etc, you get the drift. My mind never stops thinking and scheming. I've not met another person like me, which is fine, because if I did we would both be irritated by each other living in our own worlds.
Anyway, I've resolved to document as much as I can, for myself. I say this every beginning of the year, and somehow life always gets in the way. lol. Chicken and egg, without life's moments there's nothing to document, but with life's moments there's no time to document. Oh well. That's life.
I love building things, creating things, customizing things, ever since I was a little girl. If you looked at my books, shoes and school files, they will all be “marked” with all my scribbles and artwork. I was an avid gamer and would spend all my free time getting “999” on all the game and watch handhelds, first in Game A and then in Game B (hint: Game B is harder).
As I dive deeper into the world of AI engineering, I'm beginning to discover the plethora of tools available, and that's not all – every single day there's a new name of a new tool to download, check out, etc. The pace is just slightly too fast.
Initially I was thinking of Claude Code as a coding agent, then I realized there were other options, like Codex, Cline, GitHub Copilot and Jules? Ok ok, hold the phone. I need a moment to think.
I don't need such a sophisticated agent right now, so I'm not going to put down any money for subscriptions until I get stronger in my CS foundations. Playing around with VS Code, Cursor, Antigravity, then hooking up to Frontier LLMs via APIs is enough for me right now.
