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 RSSThe CLAUDE.md Paradox: When Your AI Framework Needs to Protect User Preferences
The CLAUDE.md Paradox: When Your AI Framework Needs to Protect User Preferences How we spent a day working ON BOS-AI instead of IN it - and why that matters ...
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem Date: January 3, 2026 --- The Bug That Masked Another Bug Today we fixed two critical...
The SaaS Boilerplate Killer
The SaaS Boilerplate Killer: How Sprint 9 Changed Everything Why I Almost Built the Wrong Thing I was going to build a SaaS boilerplate. You know the type—au...
The Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money
No News is Good News: 34 Hours of Trading Bot Discipline December 30, 2025 | Build in Public Update --- The Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money Over the pas...
I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works.
I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works. TL;DR: BOS-AI gives you 30 specialized AI agents that handle business strategy, operation...
Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality
Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality December 29, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Multi-Agent Architecture · Build in Public --- The Jo...
Redesigning Trading Bot From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture
Redesigning Trader-7: From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture December 25, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Architecture · Build in Public --- The Landscape H...
AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More
AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More December 19, 2025 When we launched AImpactScanner, we had a problem we couldn't solve:...
The Uncomfortable Truth About llms.txt Generators (And Why Most Are Lying to You)
The Uncomfortable Truth About llms.txt Generators (And Why Most Are Lying to You) December 19, 2025 | By Jamie Watters --- I spent the last month testing eve...
The 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity
The 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity Date: December 19, 2025 Author: Jamie Watters --- The Myth of Multitasking Humans can't mult...
Building a Smarter Trading System
Building a Smarter Trading System: Planning the v5.0 Multi-Regime Architecture Date: December 17, 2025 Category: Architecture Planning Reading Time: 8 minute...
The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything
The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything December 15, 2025 Sometimes the most frustrating bugs are the ones that seem obvious in ...
The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them)
The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them) December 13, 2025 --- For three days, my AI trading system was generating excellent trade setu...
From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How I'm Building my Trading Bot's Entry Timing System
From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How We're Building Trader-7's Entry Timing System Date: December 13, 2025 Author: Jamie Watters Series: Buildin...
Signups and Marketing Physics
I Rewrote My Signup Page Today. No Idea If It'll Work. I spent two hours today rebuilding my signup page based on a framework I read about 20 years back. It ...
Your Best Feature Is Worthless If Nobody Knows About It
Your Best Feature Is Worthless If Nobody Knows About It How I almost shipped a major competitive advantage that was completely invisible to customers --- I s...
Crypto Bot - Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day)
Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day) December 9, 2025 My trading bot ran for 14 hours yesterday. It lost $100 and taught me two lesso...
If Google can't find you optimizing for AI Search is the wrong problem to solve
You Can't Win the AI Race If Google Can't Even Find You Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody's talking about in the AI search optimization space: Most websi...
The $0.12 Crypto Trading Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive)
The $0.12 Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive) Day 20 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- Here's a question e...