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Field reports from building with AI in public. What's working, what isn't, and what it cost me. Open numbers, the failures before the wins.

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AI Slop Wins the Sprint. Truth Wins the Decade.

March 30, 2026
4 min read

The numbers are in. More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are AI slop. But the long game favours truth.

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The Day Nothing Happened Was the Most Important Day

March 30, 2026
7 min read

Zero trades in 24 hours. +$134 in 72 hours. Here is why the day the system did nothing was the most important day of the week.

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LLM.txt Mastery Sprint 15: Quality Overhaul

March 29, 2026
4 min read

Shipped a full quality overhaul for llms.txt generator. Found that llms-mini.txt doesn't exist anywhere else.

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The AI Pricing War Just Got Real: GPT-5.4 vs Claude Opus 4.6 and What It Means for Your Budget

March 29, 2026
5 min read

GPT-5.4 launched at $2.50/$15 per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.6 holds at $5/$25. The mid-tier is where the real battle is happening. Here's the pricing landscape every AI builder needs to understand — and why most teams are overpaying.

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Every AI Trading Bot Claims Dynamic Regime Detection. Here is What It Actually Looks Like in Production.

March 29, 2026
9 min read

Most bots show pnl, not Sharpe. Here is why that matters.

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From -23 USD to +1,136 USD: The Sprint 116-125 Era That Fixed Everything

March 28, 2026
1 min read

Ten sprints. From a broken system to +1,136 USD profit.

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The Exchange Rate Between Leak and Launch Is Converging to 1:1

March 28, 2026
2 min read

Leak = Launch. The exchange rate is now 1:1. Here is why incremental transparency beats big reveals.

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Best GEO Tools 2026: A Practical Guide

March 28, 2026
2 min read

Most GEO tools cost 129 USD/month. Here is what actually works for solopreneurs.

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My AI Trading System Did Nothing for 15 Hours. Then It Nailed Two Trades.

March 28, 2026
1 min read

15 hours of silence, then two profitable trades in 3 hours. The hardest edge is trusting the system when it is doing nothing.

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My AI Trading Bot Treats 4 Coins Equally. Today I Found One Has Been Dragging the Portfolio Down.

March 26, 2026
2 min read

SOL has been my weakest coin: 34% WR vs BTC 45%. Per-coin tracking shipping in Sprint 125.

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The Road to Hell is Paved with AI-Generated Fool's Gold

March 25, 2026
2 min read

AI has made it cheap to look credible without being credible. But the trust floor is cracking.

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My AI Trading System Just Taught Me the Difference Between Catching a Move and Chasing One

March 25, 2026
2 min read

Caught +72 USD on regime flip, then lost -120 USD chasing. Built a filter to prevent that.

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My AI Trading System Navigated Its First Regime Change Completely Autonomously

March 24, 2026
2 min read

Market flipped from bearish to bullish. The system stopped shorts, opened longs, and caught +72 USD in 60 minutes. Zero manual input.

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Why Your Consulting Website Is Invisible to AI (And How to Fix It in 15 Minutes)

March 24, 2026
2 min read

Most consulting websites are invisible to AI because they optimise for Google, not for LLMs. Here is how to fix that in 15 minutes.

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My AI Trading System Made $127. Then It Blocked Its Best Trade Ever.

March 22, 2026
2 min read

System made +$127, then blocked 88% confidence signal because a paper balance was hardcoded to $2K.

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I Built a Filter to Avoid Losers. It Was Blocking My Best Trades.

March 22, 2026
1 min read

Found my AI trading system was blocking its best trades. The fix: removed a filter built on bad data.

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The Trade That Changed Everything: How One Filter Turned Our AI Trading System Around

March 20, 2026
5 min read

The biggest improvement to our AI trading system was a four-line if statement that checks whether BTC is far enough from its moving average.

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From Chaos to Command: How I Rebuilt My Mission Control to Actually Work

March 20, 2026
8 min read

I run a portfolio of AI-powered products as a solo founder. The problem? Until today, I had no real way to see what was happening across all of them.

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Truth Is the Currency of the Future

March 19, 2026
6 min read

I'm betting my family's financial future on truth. Here's why I think you should too.

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AI Visibility Tools Explode (Tracking ≠ Fixing)

March 18, 2026
2 min read

Every tool tracks your AI visibility. Zero fix it. That is the gap. Measurement without action is vanity.

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