I'm not a developer by trade. I'm a basic upper-middle management guy with an MBA, that works a cyber project management job by day. So take this as "here's what worked for me," not expert advice.
When I rebuilt an old trading script into a real app — a local tool that runs AI agents to test trading strategies and write up the results — I made one rule for myself: keep it as simple as humanly possible. No extra software bolted on. Just Python and a single file to hold the data.
Why
Because I'm not an engineer. Every extra piece of software you add on is one more thing that can break — and one more thing I won't know how to fix at 1am. The more the app leans on other people's tools, the more likely I am to get stuck. So I kept the moving parts down to almost nothing.
The upside
