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 RSSAlpha 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...
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...