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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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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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Essay

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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GEO Goes Enterprise (But Solopreneurs Get Left Behind)

March 18, 2026
2 min read

GEO is the new SEO. Enterprise tools start at $129/mo. Like SEO in 1998, big agencies charge enterprise prices while solopreneurs get zero guidance.

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llms.txt Gains ML Community Validation

March 18, 2026
2 min read

Sebastian Raschka launched LLM Architecture Gallery with llms.txt. When PhD researchers building the models start using llms.txt, it is not a gimmick. It is infrastructure.

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Your 2,000-Word Blog Post Is Killing Your AI Visibility

March 17, 2026
3 min read

74% of AI citations come from listicle content. Not blog posts. Not pillar pages. Lists. Here is what the data means for your content strategy.

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I Built an AI Visibility Monitoring SaaS in 2 Days (After 10 Days of Research)

March 17, 2026
6 min read

Two days ago I had zero lines of code. Today: fully deployed SaaS with Stripe, 8 AI integrations, 347 tests. Here is how.

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The One Variable That Matters: How Data Analysis Transformed Our Trading System

March 16, 2026
6 min read

We analyzed 16 trades and found a binary outcome determined by one variable. Here's how we fixed it.

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AI Search Is Getting Ad Slots. Here's What That Means for Your Business.

March 15, 2026
3 min read

Right now is the last window to get found on merit alone. Here is what changes when paid placement arrives and what you can do about it.

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We Scored Highest on Features. AI Can't Find Us.

March 13, 2026
4 min read

How we are dogfooding our own tools to get LLMtxt Mastery cited — and building the playbook for any quality product.

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Weathering the Storm: How Trader-7 Survived 8 Regime Flips in 72 Hours

March 13, 2026
7 min read

Over 72 hours, Bitcoin crossed its 50-day moving average 8 times. Here's how my AI trading system survived the worst possible market conditions.

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The Bug That Blocked Our Trading System for 30 Hours - And the Feature We Deliberately Didnt Build

March 10, 2026
7 min read

My AI trading system went through a regime flip, lost $62, got stuck for 30+ hours, and taught me the most important lesson: the best code you write is the code you decide not to write.

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We Just Ran Our 2nd Benchmark Cycle. Here's What 21K API Calls and 12M Tokens Actually Looks Like.

March 8, 2026
4 min read

Most benchmark sites publish once and call it done. We just completed our second cycle. Here's what multi-cycle data actually unlocks.

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First 8 Hours: What the Data Says

March 8, 2026
2 min read

Watched my crypto trading agent for 8 hours after 4 structural changes. Zero trades executed, ~31 profit, validator blocked a bad trade.

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The Smartest Developers I Know Left Their Brains at the Door

March 8, 2026
5 min read

Even seasoned developers leave their brains at the door when AI agents impress them. The better the tool, the less we scrutinize it. Here's the pattern, why it's dangerous, and what to do about it.

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4 Sprints in One Day: What I Learned

March 8, 2026
2 min read

Four sprints in one day on my crypto trading agent — model upgrade bugs, context expansion, stale prompt fix, and a correlation cap that would have saved $63.

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I Spent 12 Hours Optimizing My LLM Stack. Here's What I Found.

March 7, 2026
2 min read

I pulled my billing data and realized I was paying for outdated models. 22% cost reduction later, I built ModelOptix.

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I Built the Consumer Reports for AI SEO Tools. In 6 Days.

March 6, 2026
2 min read

Six days ago, this didnt exist. Now its live with 32 tools scored across 51 dimensions by 6 AI models. Zero sponsors.

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