# Jamie Watters

> Jamie Watters builds with AI in public — open code, real numbers, the failures before the wins. Field reports from real systems (an LLM trading bot, an 11-agent dev framework, open-source tools), written for anyone using AI to become more valuable, not less, as it accelerates.

Practitioner, not guru: mainframe systems programmer since the 1980s, now shipping AI-built products solo and documenting exactly what works, what fails, and what it costs.

Refreshed 2026-07-23 (PRJ-25 baseline audit). Full URL index: https://jamiewatters.work/sitemap.xml · Feed: https://jamiewatters.work/rss.xml

## Key pages

- [The Field Report](https://jamiewatters.work/journey): the single feed of everything — essays, build logs, benchmarks and field notes, filterable by topic
- [About](https://jamiewatters.work/about): who Jamie is and why he shares the whole process in public
- [My Story](https://jamiewatters.work/my-story): the long arc — assembler-era engineering to AI-native solo building
- [Portfolio](https://jamiewatters.work/portfolio): the live products, with honest proof points
- [Dashboard](https://jamiewatters.work/dashboard): real metrics, updated in public

## Topics (filtered feeds)

- [AI](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/ai): working with LLMs, agents and harnesses day to day
- [AI Search](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/ai-search): visibility in AI answers — llms.txt, crawlers, GEO
- [Building](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/building): shipping products with AI, build-in-public logs
- [Open Source](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/open-source): released tools and the reasoning behind them
- [Trading](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/trading): Trader-7, an LLM-powered trading system, documented honestly
- [Thinking](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/thinking): cognitive sovereignty — staying sharp while AI does more
- [Business](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/topic/business): the commercial reality of solo AI-native work

## Selected field reports

- [I swapped the model and nothing happened](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/swapped-model-nothing-happened): swapping the LLMs behind a live trading bot by replaying 78 real prompts first
- [I Leaked an API Key and It Turned My Own Domain Into a Phishing Weapon](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/phished-from-my-own-domain): a real breach, what leaked, and what changed
- [Garry Tan Just Described My Setup. Then I Noticed What He Left Out.](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/garry-tan-described-my-setup): on the word the AI-agent conversation keeps skipping
- [A friend said it was a business. I decided it was not, and built it anyway.](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/a-friend-said-it-was-a-business): why Executor File is free and open source
- [The Uncomfortable Truth About llms.txt Generators](https://jamiewatters.work/journey/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-llmstxt-generators-and-why-most-are-lying-to-you): testing the tools this file was born from

## Elsewhere

- [GitHub](https://github.com/TheWayWithin): open-source repos, including AGENT-11 and Executor File
- [X](https://x.com/Jamie_within): @Jamie_within