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David Streuli Take Feb 20, 2026

AI and Jupyter notebooks are an explosive combination

Jupyter notebooks replaced about three paid tools for me.

A versus graphic: the Jupyter logo on a bright orange burst, split by a lightning bolt from the crumbling grey logos of Power BI, Tableau and Looker.

AIs and Jupyter notebooks are an explosive combination for literally EVERY computer owner: Jupyter notebooks replaced like 3 paid tools for me.

Dashboards? Jupyter.
Data pipelines? Jupyter.
Reports for clients? Also Jupyter.

It’s free (Google Colab), runs in your browser, and with AI, you barely write code yourself. Python is not much more than a language, and AI interprets faster than I can blink.

Expensive software? Open source is the name of the game; Wall Street is feeling it.