Using Claude Code to upgrade my business

Last week was busy, even though it was the school holidays, with one SIAS course followed up with a preview. At the same time, I've managed to sign up for classes for Athropic's Claude, which covers a mix of high-level philosophical lessons on incorporating AI into human work and just one technical introduction to Claude Code.

And what such a small difference would have made!

Within 30 minutes of barely understanding how Claude Code worked, I began using it to improve the Early Retirement Masterclass web app.

For reference, here is a screenshot of my old web app, which is still in production for my next course run.

After using about $1 worth of tokens, this is the latest version of my website.

And I've only just begun in website design, and UX is my greatest weakness. It's an area I'm not really interested in learning, and now I have a person who can adjust font sizes and change colours for about $0.30.

But it goes deeper: AI can collaborate with me to improve my website. I initially wanted to incorporate LLMs into my tool to pre-fill the forms my students use. It was the AI that suggested making direct API calls to Yahoo Finance instead.

So no more broken English when students mangle the main business of the stocks they are investigating in our final portfolio reports.

At this stage, every investing trainer needs to ask themselves the question:

What kind of investigation into a local stock can be enhanced by AI, and what kind of judgment call had best be done by human beings? Claude places this under Delegation in their 4Ds AI framework. 

My program has a fully fleshed-out Markdown file to automate stock valuation. Here's one of many paragraphs produced for YZJ Financial Holdings.

I've designed the analysis to rely solely on downloaded financial statements and avoid referencing human analyst reports until the last step. I find that such reports are superior because they are more willing to make sell calls and price a stock as brutally and realistically as possible.

The old web app will still be used in next week's Batch 41 program. The new web app will be deployed to the cloud after the course. 

Finally, putting such powerful tools to work for any business or solopreneur has implications for the economy. I prefer to wait for these social scientists to think through the implications of this. There are just too many applications I'm dreaming of to do any navel-gazing on jobs, governance, and policy implications.

I only know that dividends can be converted into AI tokens, which can lead to larger businesses and more passive income, enabling better AI tools and more tokens, provided you are ready to retool yourself as a dreamer.

The time has come to be a maker and not a taker.

Students can refer to Dr Wealth for a refresher.

Anyway, if you are wondering why I've not been creating new content. 

The above is the reason why.