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Jamie Watters
Jamie Watters
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@TheWayWithin
Ex systems programmer that loved work, but was turned into a manager who's escape is being engineered with AI, Claude Code and big dreams.
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Spending time getting agents to document what they do then do what they say, bring back juniors! #AIOrchestration
10 days research, analysis & design. 2 days coding.
New AI citation engine is alive.
Lets see how long it takes to test!
#buildinpublic #AImpactMonitor
Trades >2.5% from SMA50: 100% WR. Trades <2.5%: 0% WR.
One variable. Binary outcome.
Added a hard floor — don't trade in the danger zone.
#trader7 #buildinpublic
I just ran 200 tests across 5 AI models.
Asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok 50 questions about a category of tool.
0 mentions.
Not a single "oh yeah, there's this tool that does that."
This is my baseline. Zero visibility.
The goal: get to 10% in 90 days. Track it weekly.
#buildinpublic
A bug locked my trading bot for 30 hours. Fixed in 15 lines.
Then I wanted to add protection. Spent an hour analysing it.
Expected value: negative. So I didn't build it.
Getting better at saying no.
Full: jamiewatters.work/journey/tra…
#trader7 #buildinpublic
A bug locked my trading bot for 30 hours. Fixed in 15 lines.
Then I wanted to add protection. Spent an hour analysing it.
Expected value: negative. So I didn't build it.
Sometimes the best code is the code you don't write.
#trader7 #buildinpublic
Just shipped our 2nd benchmark cycle. 32 AI SEO tools. 51 dimensions. 6 AI judges. 21K API calls. 12.1M tokens. Here's the thing: one cycle is just a snapshot. Two? That's when it gets interesting. Now I can track trends. See who moved up. Build statistical confidence over time. Weekly cycles. Because data from last quarter doesn't help your buying decision today. Rankings: aisearcharena.com
#aisearcharena #buildinpublic
Day 69: 8 hours monitoring. 0 trades (correct), 131 dollars profit, validator blocked 1 bad trade. The best trades are the ones you do not take.
#trader7
4 sprints today on
#trader7: (1) Fixed Claude 4.5→4.6 upgrade breaking JSON, (2) Expanded context to 2 weeks — immediately spotted 9 losing trades pattern, (3) Found stale prompt suppressing good trades, (4) Added correlation cap. All 3 shorts profitable. Now monitoring.
Working on getting the word out about AISearchArena. Published a deep-dive on why AI SEO tool benchmarks are broken and how we built something different. jamiewatters.work/journey/ai-search-arena-launch Next: figure out how to actually get this in front of the right people.
#aisearcharena
Day 66: Emergency brake deployed a week ago, never fired. Two bugs silently disabled it. Also found: cooldown evaporates on deploy, dead code.
#trader7
Trader-7: Left agent trading for 3 days post-Sprint 103. Performance fell off a cliff — need heavy lifting to find the gold buried under the debris.
#trader7
Admin backend added to AI Search Arena — manage vendors, benchmark cycles, tool enrollment. aisearcharena.com
#aisearcharena
Tool comparison view on AI Search Arena — compare up to 4 tools side-by-side across 51 dimensions. aisearcharena.com
#aisearcharena
Published GEO benchmark framework publicly. 51 dimensions, 128 prompts, 6 AI models. First cycle running: 32 tools.
#aisearcharena
Lost $97 from over-deploying after regime flip. Fixed with Sprint 101. +5.9% over 80 trades.
#trader7