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 about 80-90% of what he needs.

What you'll hear in this episode:
- An oil analyst explaining the daily problem: separating fact from spin in news headlines
- Building a fact extraction tool with Claude Code, live in one session
- The moment two articles about the Strait of Hormuz directly contradicted each other
- Why "dangerously skip permissions" exists in Claude Code (cowboy mode)
- Bryan's live feedback: what worked, what didn't, and what he'd actually use
- Yaohong on why confidence scores without defined criteria will hallucinate

Hosts: Eric Tan (non-technical builder) & Yaohong Ch'ng (engineer, Superuser HQ, ex-Stashaway head of Data)
Guest: Bryan - oil market analyst

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Connect with us:
- Eric on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/
- Yaohong on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/
- WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Dmp5eEEsAZhJTB6LjcIG3c?mode=gi_t
- Substack: https://substack.com/@coderiff
- Email: code.riffs.ai@gmail.com

Tools used in this episode:
- Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code
- Gemini API (news classification/analysis): https://ai.google.dev/
- Python (RSS scraping + fact extraction)

Tools we use:
- Buzzsprout (podcast hosting): https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2371679
- Snipd (AI podcast highlights): https://get.snipd.com/pAbF/36jzrvki

LEARN ALONG - Glossary:
- RSS feeds: A way to automatically pull articles from news sites without visiting each one. Like a subscription pipe that delivers headlines to your tool.
- API keys: Password-like codes that let your tool access paid services like AI models. You keep them secret and they track your usage.
- Hallucination: When AI confidently generates information that sounds right but isn't real. The biggest risk when you need verified facts for trading decisions.
- Sandbox: A restricted environment that limits what code can do on your computer. A safety net when running AI-generated code.
- Dangerously skip permissions: A Claude Code setting that removes the safety sandbox. Useful for speed, risky if you don't trust what the code is doing.
- Scenario analysis: A structured way of thinking through "if X happens, then Y follows." Bryan uses a specific framework: impact, market response, price implications.

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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.