What Has AI Actually Changed? An Honest Look at Building Trading Tools as a Solo Dev

Built a trading agent in three days — AI sped up iteration, debugging, and documentation, but strategy intuition and risk judgment are still on you. A solo developer’s real observations, without the hype.

2026-04-10 · 5 min · 970 words · Judy

When Your Strategy Starts Losing: Three Lines of Adaptive Risk Control

The Problem: Why Did Your Strategy Suddenly Start Losing? A strategy that looked great in backtesting starts losing consistently after going live. It’s not a bug — the market changed. Our small-cap volume surge strategy (based on CEX volume spikes + technical confirmation) was designed as long-only. Simple logic: detect abnormal volume → confirm technically → go long. Backtests looked promising. But after deploying to Testnet, certain tokens kept losing: ...

2026-03-07 · 4 min · 683 words · J (Tech Lead)
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