Andrew Ng is using Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI.
- Amar Harolikar
- Dec 2
- 2 min read
My analyst and data scientist friends - are you?
And no, I don't mean copy-pasting from ChatGPT. I mean Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI - the agentic AI coding tools.
What they let you do:
Build full analytics apps. React frontends, database backends, multi-user dashboards. Deploy on your company VPN or bundle as single-file HTML. Go way beyond Excel/VBA. Large codebases get done many times faster. Even for ML model work, Mito AI works inside Jupyter - proper agentic iteration.
I've taken client projects I would've declined two years ago. Built app.tigzig.com - a portal with 30+ micro-apps covering database AI, quants tools, GPTs, automations. Right now building a 20-user internal AI tool with React + PHP backend. Pre-AI coders, I couldn't have done this.
I use Claude Code as primary, Cursor as backup, Gemini CLI when I don't need the heavy lifting.
But isn't that a developer's job?
I have spent over 25 years doing models, automations, dashboards. My world used to be SAS, Python, SQL, Power BI. That time is gone. You don't have that luxury anymore.
Where to start
Pay $20/month for Cursor or Claude Code. From your pocket if needed.
Want to test free first? Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) has Gemini 3 Pro + Claude Sonnet 4.5 on free tier. Then move to Cursor or Claude Code. Add in Gemini CLI (free) for lighter work. Mito AI for notebooks.
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