A late-night chat w/an AI buddy of mine made it click: we’re going back to Unix.

AI tools like Claude Code and Gemini shine when calling CLI tools: gh, ffmpeg, etc.

The future? Expose everything via CLI.
Let AI glue it all together.
UX friction becomes an implementation detail.

Costco stores every receipt behind a simple API.
I reverse-engineered the calls, asked AI to turn the cURL into a loop, and spun up a quick dashboard.

Video → how to:
	1.	sniff the network traffic
	2.	feed the cURL into AI, get a loop back
	3.	ship a custom BI view in minutes

Code + live demo here ⬇️

For those that follow me I’ve leaned in to the creator world and have been hosting bi weekly office hours focused on data engineering/science/analytics and have been uploading them to YouTube. Check it out:

For those that follow me I’ve leaned in to the creator world and have been hosting bi weekly office hours focused on data engineering/science/analytics and have been uploading them to YouTube. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab8ZEtChuk

I like running, poker and oysters | Founder, Social Forensics | Berkeley & UPenn | Learning to listen

Had some fun with @geoffgolberg exploring the Farcaster dataset from https://blog.indexing.co/posts/IaPkkuevwwfgBWtZ3F7eg5oQUqyV_o6sLDo28oEV8Tg

Really cool stuff on there and a great service from https://www.indexing.co/

Founder of Twing Data. Enjoy exploring obscure data sets and fixing more than I break 

Dan Goldin

@dangoldin