Hey everyone, it's your average 38-year-old developer here, hacking away at AI agents and automated trading bots in my evenings and weekends, just like many of you.
Today, I want to share a recent blunder with a financial information AI agent I built. What started as a chuckle-worthy mistake turned into a serious lesson about "information reliability" — a critical factor that can be fatal for any automated system design.
The Problem: AI Recommends a "Non-Existent Investment Trust"
With the new NISA (Japan's tax-advantaged investment program) kicking off, I was building an AI agent to list investment trusts tracking specific indices, primarily to rebalance my own portfolio. I started by asking it to compare products linked to the trending "FANG+" index.
Within seconds of my prompt, the AI confidently replied:
