The Journey
Most posts here are ad hoc: what I learned building with AI that week, some philosophy, a writing lesson, something I came across.
Subscribe via RSSFrom 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...
Implementing the insights from Alpha Arena 1.5 and Grok 4.2's strategies
Stop Optimizing For Win Rate (What I Implemented After Watching AI Win With 34.6% Accuracy) Day 19 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public ...
Alpha Arena - A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing.
A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing. What happens when you let AI models trade against each other for 2 weeks? T...
I Built a Calculator to See What 0.2% Daily Returns Look Like Over 10 Years (The Numbers Are Insane)
I Built a Calculator to See What 0.2% Daily Returns Look Like Over 10 Years (The Numbers Are Insane) TL;DR: My crypto trading bot is averaging small daily ga...
I Thought My Crypto Agent Lost Money Overnight. Then I Found the Bug?
My AI Trader Ran All Night While I Slept (Here's What Happened) Day 19 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- I woke up at 8am to chec...
My Build In Public Site - 97% quicker using agent-11 vs Claude's estimates
From 30 Hours to 1 Hour: The Power of AGENT-11 Automation In the fast-paced world of software development, every second counts. Imagine accomplishing a task ...
Crypto Trading Agent - upgrade to reasoning model
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...