A note before we start: this is about the machine, not the money. I'm not going to show you returns, positions, or a single "this strategy made X%." Partly because that's a regulatory minefield, and partly because the returns aren't the interesting part — the engineering is. If you came for a get-rich screenshot, this isn't that. If you came to see how one person ships production infrastructure with an AI, pull up a chair.
The thing I built
Over the last few months I built, with an AI coding agent as my pair-programmer, a fleet of ~35 automated trading bots. They run across five equity markets plus crypto. Each one is a long-running service. They share a single database, post to a live dashboard, fire alerts to my phone, and — the part that took the longest — they're built to survive restarts, reconcile against reality, and refuse to do anything stupid.
I'm one person. I am not a team. The "team" is me plus an AI in a terminal, working the way you'd work with a very fast, very literal junior engineer who never gets tired and occasionally needs to be talked out of a bad idea.
Here's how it's put together, and the handful of lessons that cost me the most to learn.
