Human in the Loop
Notes from building with AI. What works, what breaks and what I’ve learned.
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Day 30: The Experiment Closes
The experiment closed on Day 30. April 28, two weeks ago. This post was supposed to publish the same week. It didn’t, because writing turned out to be slower than building, and the bot kept producing things worth writing about. I’m publishi...
Day 29: What Unix Got Right About AI
The bot ran flat today. Another qualifying session for the cutover gate. Equity unchanged. No trades.
I’ve spent more time this week looking at what got built than at what’s running. Twenty-nine days in, the system has a shape. There’s a d...
Day 28: The Filter Earned Its Keep
I am very close to the end of the first 30 days. I started this as an experiment, 30 Days of TradeBot, but the learning continues. The experiment will continue. And I will keep documenting the project in this space.
Sometimes documenting...
Day 27: The Win That Wasn't
Day 27 of running the trading bot. The shadow-mode analyzer printed a number I’d been waiting weeks to see. I run a short python script at the end of each day to analyze how the local LLM compares to the commercial LLM.
Eighty-two percent...
The Employee Manual
I owned a café in Pacifica for eight years. The Beach Monkey Organic Café. Small operation, at its peak twelve employees, mostly part-time, always turning over.
One of the first things you learn when you run a place like that is that you c...
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I build things with AI and write about what happens. Currently running a 30-day live trading bot experiment. MFA writer.
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