Code Riff

gaurav keerthi has packed several careers into one. he was a rescue helicopter pilot, made brigadier-general, became the air force's first chief innovation officer, then deputy chief executive of singapore's cyber security agency. then he started strongkeep, because he was tired of waiting for someone to build affordable cybersecurity for the small businesses everyone else overlooks. in...

This is a secret episode we almost didn't release. Eric (vibe-coder, can't read code) and his cousin Jason (a software engineer) sat down to build a family app for their ageing grandparents. What you'll hear is a distilled 2.5h chat, with a brief demo near the end. We're releasing it because the mess is the whole point. If you're curious about vibe coding but scared to sta...

Cosmetic scientists from FMCG companies spend days clicking between PubChem, INCI Decoder, and supplier sites just to figure out what's in one competitor product. Aidil is a cosmetic chemist. He does this manually in Excel and through hundreds of searches in a textbox. We tried to solve that task with Claude Code - live, in 90 minutes. 10 products decoded, and a similarity matrix. What you&ap...

Lynn runs Dr. Bags, a luxury bag and shoes restoration business in Singapore - 11 years, 3 stores, about 30 staff. Her team is already stretched thin building a new ERP system, training staff, and handling daily operations. Analysing marketing data? That would take two days nobody has. We built her a marketing dashboard in under an hour using Claude Code with a month of her deal pipeline data. It...

Bryan is an oil market analyst. Every morning he spends one to two hours reading news - Reuters, CNN, CNBC - trying to pull out the actual facts from opinion and spin. Two articles about the same event sometimes say opposite things. We tried building him an AI tool using Claude Code. It scraped hundreds of articles, stripped out the editorializing, and pulled just the verifiable facts. It covered...

Chuyi quit her corporate job to help manage a wet market vegetable store at Marine Terrace. She tracks competitor prices and supplier orders through WhatsApp and spreadsheets — all by hand. So we used Claude Cowork to build her a competitor pricing guide and supplier management dashboard in one hour, having fun while doing it together. What you'll hear in this episode: - A wet market store op...

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 analys...

I don't write code. Yaohong's been coding since he was 13. We sat down to figure out why we're making a podcast about building things with AI - live, on camera, with real people's real problems. In this episode, we talk about: - Why this moment is important for non-coders to build with AI - Singapore's 2026 budget and AI adoption - The problem with AI consultants selling t...