Human in the Loop
Notes from building with AI. What works, what breaks and what I’ve learned.
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No One on the Other Side
I sat down on Sunday morning in front of my laptop and wondered if I could build and run a fully local LLM chatbot. Instead of a ChatGPT I would be running a MichaelGPT.
By lunchtime the chatbot was up and running. The web application inte...
Deep Breath
I took a deep breath over the last five-plus weeks.
The TradeBot experiment finished its thirty days back in May, and then I went quiet. The bot still scans the market every day. It’s still in the black. The algorithm keeps the P&L positiv...
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...
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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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