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.
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When Your AI Trader Argues With Itself (And You Have to Pick a Winner) Day 18 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- Today I learned s...
Crypto Trading Agent - Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned.
I Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned About Compound Momentum. December 5, 2025 - Building Trader-7 in Public --- Yesterday, I woke up with ...
My Build In Public Site - Rebuilding (And What Most Founders Get Wrong About Content)
Why I'm Rebuilding My "Build in Public" Site (And What Most Founders Get Wrong About Content) TL;DR I just finished testing my personal site and realized som...
Crypto Trading Agent - How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter
How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter December 4, 2025 - Building Trader-7 in Public --- Yesterday, my AI-powered crypto trading bot lo...
Agent-11 Progress - Dec 5th
Day 47: Why Advisory Protocols Always Fail Under Pressure December 5, 2025 Today I shipped Sprint 8 of AGENT-11, and it tackles a problem that's been frustra...
Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Trading Progressing
Building an AI Trading Bot: When Your Code Actually Makes Money December 3, 2025 There's something surreal about watching code you wrote at 8am generate $25 ...
Crypto Trading Agent - Todays open positions
Paper Testing Positions Open Positions (All Profitable) | Asset | Entry | Current | Unrealized | |--------|---------|---------|------------| | SOL #...
Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Testing
When Your Bot Opens Two BTC Longs and You Learn to Love It TL;DR: Deployed Sprint 16 fixes to Trader-7 with better dashboard metrics and fee warnings. Disc...
Agent-11 Progress - Added report to generate social media posts
Day 43: Shipping Social Media Automation for Build-in-Public December 1, 2025 Today I completed Sprint 7 of AGENT-11, and it's one of those features that wil...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - Nov 30th
Wrestling with Connections and Consistency: Fixing Trader-7’s Critical Bugs TL;DR: Spent the day squashing three nasty bugs that were tripping up Trader-7’s ...
LLM Powered SaaS Growth Engine - New Project
From Zero to Autonomous: Building the ASMGE Growth Engine in a Day 🚀 - Day 1 of AI Search Mastery Growth Engine (ASMGE) > TL;DR: Today I turned a mountain o...
Evolve -7 Genius insight via multi-model LLM and evolutionary alogrithms - Progress - 30 Nov 2025
One API Key to Rule Them All: Unifying 300+ AI Models – Day 30 of Evolve-7 > TL;DR: Replaced 6 separate AI provider API keys with a single OpenRouter integra...
My Build In Public Site - JamieWatters.work - Progress - 30 Nov 2025
From Hardcoded to Heartfelt: Transforming Project Metrics for Authenticity TL;DR Today, I embarked on a journey to replace generic hardcoded metrics in my po...
AI Impact Scanner - Analyze sites AI search readiness tool - Progress 29 Nov 2025
Unlocking SEO Magic with llms.txt — Day 29 of AImpactScanner MVP > TL;DR: Launched the first sprint of llms.txt integration, letting Growth and Scale users g...
LLMS.TXT File Generator - Progress - 29 Nov 2025
From SaaS to API Powerhouse 🚀 – Day 45 of LLM.txt Mastery > TL;DR: Turned LLM.txt Mastery into a fully API-callable platform, unlocking new B2B possibilitie...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 29 Nov 2025
Wrestling with Fees: Making Trader-7 Transparent and Trustworthy TL;DR: Sprint 12 was all about nailing fee transparency in Trader-7. We added detailed fee...
Agent-11 Progress - 29 Nov 2025
Locking It Down: Making Persistence Protocols Unbreakable – Day 29 of AGENT-11 > TL;DR: Today I sealed the cracks in AGENT-11’s file persistence during coord...
Agent-11 Progress - 28 Nov
Getting Lean and Smart with AGENT-11: Sprints 4 & 5 Set the Stage - Day 28 > TL;DR: Made AGENT-11 smarter with Opus 4.5 and leaner by fixing token bloat—plus...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 28 Nov 2025
Breaking Through the Noise: Trading Smarter in Weak Trends – Day 28 of Trader-7 Automated Trading System > TL;DR: Today, I cracked the code on trading during...