The Journey
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.
Subscribe via RSSYou Can Rank #1 and Still Be Invisible
Here's what LinkedIn didn't want to tell you. 60% of B2B traffic disappeared while rankings stayed the same.
Trader-7: +10% in 80 Hours, Critical Bug Fix & Late-Entry Pattern Discovery
February 2026 performance report: +9.98% return, discovered critical order_mgr bug that broke regime protection, found late-entry pattern causing 77% of losses.
Everyone's generating llms.txt. Which tool actually works?
I benchmarked 14 AI visibility tools so you don't have to. Here's what I found.
The $200,000 Problem Nobody's Talking About
OpenAI launched ads in ChatGPT with a $200,000 minimum spend. Here's the $4.95 fix for solopreneurs who can't afford to play.
Claude Killed My Subscription. I Found Something 90% Cheaper.
"Computer says no." The moment I tried to push code and VS Code said no. Then my OpenClaw bots died.
93% of AI Searches Never Reach a Website. Which Side Are You On?
93% of queries in Google's AI Mode never result in a click. ChatGPT is charging $60 CPM for ads. LinkedIn B2B traffic is down 60%. The shift to AI search isn't coming. It's here. Here's what it means if you're not a Fortune 500.
No Code Changes. No Bug Fixes. Just the System... Trading.
My AI trading system ran for 24 hours unsupervised. +$91 profit, zero losses, Sharpe ratio hit 2.02. After 14 sprints in 25 days, nothing broke. That is the milestone.
If This Isn't a Month's Work, I'm Not Trying Hard Enough
Last year I believed we overestimate what we can do in a day. Now I think if I'm not compressing months into a Monday, I'm not trying hard enough. Here's everything I shipped in one day with two AI agents.
The Session Where Everything Clicked: +$118 in 36 Hours
My AI trading system went from a 0.57 Sharpe ratio to 1.83 in 36 hours. A trailing stop fix I shipped 3 days ago captured $207 in profits during a crypto sell-off. One trade I flagged as 'marginal' became the biggest winner.
I Let My AI Agent Read My Email. Then I Tried to Hack It.
How I built a zero-cost, air-gapped email triage system — and why every AI agent setup with email access is a ticking time bomb.
I Let My AI Agent Read My Email. Then I Tried to Hack It.
Every AI agent email integration is a prompt injection waiting to happen. I built a zero-cost air-gapped system, then attacked it myself. Here's what happened.
Why I Ditched Notion for Obsidian — And Let My AI Agents Into My Second Brain
How a simple folder structure replaced my $96/year Notion subscription and made my AI assistants 10x more useful. Obsidian + QMD + Syncthing + PARA = a Second Brain your AI agents can actually use.
The First Trade That Proved the System Works
26 hours of autonomous trading. The most important thing the system did was nothing. First complete trailing stop lifecycle, regime watchdog restraint, and the quiet validation of four sprints.
When Safety Features Attack: How Four Independent Safeguards Created Total Trading Paralysis
Four independent safety features in my AI trading bot were fighting each other — causing complete trading paralysis. Here's the architectural fix.
17 Days of AI Trading: +10.7% Return and the Bug That Just Cost Us $95
Trader-7 paper trading results after 17 days: +10.7% return, 3.83 Sharpe ratio, and how a stale prompt blocked 56 correct trade signals for 14 hours.
Moving an AI Agent Between Platforms: The Checklist We Wish We Had
Moving an AI agent between platforms sounds simple. It's not. Here's everything that broke migrating from AWS to Mac Mini, and the checklist for doing it right.
Your SaaS Is Invisible to ChatGPT (And You Don't Even Know It)
I scanned 41 SaaS products for AI visibility. 85% are completely invisible to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Here's why — and how to fix it.
I'm Building 11 Products Solo. Here's Why I Refuse to Run 11 Social Media Accounts.
Conventional wisdom says 11 products need 11 social accounts. I asked 5 AI systems for advice. They all gave the same answer: hub-and-spoke. Here's the strategy I'm betting on.
The Crypto "Hedge" That Fails Exactly When You Need It
I spent a day investigating funding rate arbitrage for Trader-7. Three independent analyses later, the answer was unanimous: No. And the reason is more interesting than you'd expect.