Report · MoneyThe wedding example in the repo is a worked-through example that has all the elements. In the demonstration, the example problem is a wedding with three payments — one for $6,000, another for an unknown amount, and another for the rest — plus fixed costs like a DJ and decorations, and per-seat dinner costs with unknown attendance. The presenter deliberately adds disorganized, vague information (e.g., 'I have no savings. It will come from my pocket. My mom may give me like 5K.') to show how the agent handles it, with a price per person of around $150.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyFrancesco describes that Claude Code has a slash BTW (by the way) feature that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't — it feels like you're doing an aside, but it becomes part of the context. When you ask a question in Claude, you don't have a choice; it becomes part of the session.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyWhen leadership grills you about AI accuracy, frame the response around 'this is still SQL queries' — with a spoiler that a talk the next day covers this.
uncertain, low confidence
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Anecdote · MoneyThe host recounts that he used to trade currency options in London, then spent time in rates, following the common path of starting with EMEA and moving into G10 currencies. He was one of the very first at Balyasny to use the Twitter firehose, the alternative data feed costing around $300,000 a month.
Personal recollection; the firehose cost figure carries a possible_numeric_error flag.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Anecdote · MoneyAnekha describes doing her undergrad in statistics and math (which is now what everyone calls AI) at Warwick in England, including financial calculus such as stochastic calculus. She got her first internship in investment banking and trading, then an internship at JP Morgan where she started on the emerging markets desk, then moved to commodities to do derivative trading. Most of her career has been in energy derivatives.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Anecdote · MoneyWhen calculating wedding costs, a per-dinner cost figure is not the total number because there are additional variable costs on top of it.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Anecdote · MoneyA famous tweet claimed Elon Musk could give a million dollars to every person in the world and still have money; reading it you think 'wait, what? That doesn't feel right,' and it needed looking into the calculations the person made — it's a little bit of a gut feeling.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Anecdote · MoneyFrancesco confesses he has the most expensive Claude subscription and maxes it out, to the point that Anthropic is 'definitely on the red' because of him. He tried using research mode for everything in wedding planning — venues, flowers, planning, and different payment scenarios. For finding the top five photographers in Madrid, a web search with refined tooling was good enough — it worked like a charm with no further work, producing comparisons and even outreach. He once spent an hour drive (each way) re-running the same conversation three times via voice mode because every attempt at financially-related planning went wrong.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyThe speakers observe that trading desks ingest a lot of information that LLMs can probably process better, but the tooling did not exist ten years ago when the host was trading.
Speculative observation ('probably'), stated with moderate confidence.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Creator perspective · MoneyAnekha Sokhal recounts that on the buy side, traders start paying for alternative data, and the sources she used included satellite information and credit card information.
Personal recollection of the data types used; no further detail given.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Anecdote · MoneyFirst-time founders don't know the hiring market dynamics (undercover candidates, work-eligibility issues, visa noise) when they start. The speaker is a first-time founder themselves.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Anecdote · MoneyAnekha Sokhal identifies as a first-time founder and a media person at heart. To establish herself in AI, she started an AI engineering post, a conference, and media work. She finds the work fulfilling because it lets her meet real people instead of staring at a screen all day, though she misses trading a little bit.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Report · MoneyAnekha describes hosting their first webinar because the amount of inbound means they can't always do one-to-ones.
Latent Space · You are the Team — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi
Report · MoneyThe presenters built the workshop around a very simple example harness that participants can try out; everything built during the session can be taken home to review what was done and what was liked or disliked. The presenters note they are not claiming their approach is the model — it is one way that has been working for them across a number of use cases — and that the setup includes over-engineered parts and is not a session on good UI/UX design, just to show how it could feel and the potential.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyThe tests should be passing, and you will notice there was no thinking, perusing, or the verbs agents put when they're loading something — because these are just tests that need to run in your environment.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyWhen you have a stupid question mid-conversation, you want it to be an aside ('hey, this is a stupid question, please don't use it for anything else'), but if you ask a question in a Claude session you don't get a choice — it becomes part of the session. The slash-BTW thing on Claude sometimes works and sometimes doesn't; it feels like an aside but becomes part of the context.
described with mixed results
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyFrancesco notes that no money is moving out of the bank account anywhere in the demo, which is why low accountability is still acceptable there.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyA famous tweet claimed Elon Musk could give a million dollars to every person in the world and still have money; reading it triggers a 'wait, that doesn't feel right' reaction.
anecdotal retelling
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyThe coding assistant examples are used because they're close to us and are tools many use daily, not because that's how Monzo approaches things given its different context.
described
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
Creator perspective · MoneyThe demo UI includes a quality-of-life feature where hovering at the bottom breaks down which elements of the UI make sense for which principle being discussed.
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
