Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play

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Jordan Metzner, Samuel Nadler

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Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play

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Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play

Episode 11: Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play

This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into the intersection of AI, music, and enterprise tools. Jordan shows off a new project built on Strudel, a live-coding JavaScript music library, turning it into an AI-powered DJ + Ableton-style mixer that generates new beats on the fly. Then, the hosts spotlight a daily use case of Claude that creates instant CFO-style dashboards from raw spreadsheets or PDFs, beating out other LLMs for speed and clarity. Finally, they break down OpenAI’s $1.1B acquisition of StatSig, what it means for Codex and the AI coding race, plus big moves in Figma’s IPO, Google’s antitrust settlement, and the rise of enterprise-focused AI like You.com.

Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + Jordan discovers Strudel for live-coding music
(2:20) Demo: remixing tracks with AI-generated beats
(5:02) Building an AI-powered two-deck DJ tool inspired by Ableton
(8:14) How LLMs are lowering barriers to music production
(10:13) Claude use case: auto-generating dashboards from Google’s 10-K
(12:59) Why Claude outperforms other LLMs for financial and ops data
(14:27) Codex gains traction; Rise Labs engineers switch from Claude Code
(15:56) OpenAI acquires StatSig for $1.1B to boost Codex + experimentation
(17:14) Anthropic predicts 90% of code will be bot-written
(18:17) Figma’s IPO rollercoaster & enterprise adoption
(19:37) Google avoids selling Chrome in antitrust ruling
(20:29) You.com raises $100M pivoting to enterprise AI search
(22:08) Why back-office ops are AI’s sleeper hit in enterprises

Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
Strudel – https://strudel.cc
Claude – https://claude.ai
Codex – https://platform.openai.com
Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com

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