I had an AI agent build 3 trading bots. It was losing to HFT before it even started.
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I run a one-person AI company. A few weeks ago I pointed Claude Code — an AI coding agent — at a simple brief: build a paper-trading bot, watch it run, tell me honestly whether it works. It built three: crypto, equities, and options, each against Alpaca 's paper trading API. Full code is public: github.com/tatsuyawwp/ai-trading-bot-experiment . This post is about what happened when I asked it the one question that actually mattered, and made it answer honestly instead of just shipping something…
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- A few weeks ago I pointed Claude Code — an AI coding agent — at a simple brief: build a paper-trading bot, watch it run, tell me honestly whether it works.
- It built three: crypto, equities, and options, each against Alpaca 's paper trading API.
- Full code is public: github.com/tatsuyawwp/ai-trading-bot-experiment .
- This post is about what happened when I asked it the one question that actually mattered, and made it answer honestly instead of just shipping something….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that a few weeks ago I pointed Claude Code — an AI coding agent — at a simple brief: build a paper-trading bot, watch it run, tell me honestly whether it works.
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