AI and I

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“For years, I was told Euronext is missing the data revolution. Data is the new oil. You are missing the data boat. As I said earlier, all of us are finding out that maybe we missed the data boat – that maybe this data boat was a Titanic boat, that we missed the Titanic boat.” — Stéphane Boujnah, CEO, Euronext, February 2026.Before this month, the last time I wrote a piece of software was 40 years ago. It was a school project to design something linked to the history syllabus. Inspired by a popular TV quiz show, I made a game that allowed players to progress around a board by getting questions right – a kind of 1980s Quizlet, though with fewer questions because memory was scarce back then. It marked the pinnacle of my software achievements. After that, my programming skills atrophied and I spent the next few decades deep in Excel instead.Until last week.I’d read about Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding assistant, but I previously dismissed it as a tool for engineers. As a newsletter writer, most of my software needs are met: Google Docs for drafting, Substack for email management and website hosting, Stripe for payments.But one part of the stack that I’ve struggled to leverage is idea generation. Indeed, how I come up with a topic each week is the question I most often get asked by readers. So, freshly installed, I set Claude Code a task: fully index my back catalog of Net Interest issues and then, on a daily basis, skim financial news and research papers and other content across a range of sources and flag anything on brand. For the past few days, I’ve received a m…