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Jamie Watters
Jamie Watters
@TheWayWithin
Systems programmer who loved the work, got scared, hid in management for 20 years. Now engineering my way back out with AI and Claude Code.
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Shipped PR-B v9. Pre-flight caught three non-existent columns in v7, same class as the bug I blogged about four days ago. Lesson: a rule in docs is not a rule in practice.
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Published a postmortem on Sprint 120: removed a trading-system safety rail without data, 41 trades later the bill was -$217.
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Shipped 10 forensic columns + a 4-way ATR shadow log to Trader-7. Zero behaviour change. 30 days of paired data before I touch the multiplier.
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I had to remind myself that the market is the genius, so I don't need to be one.
Shipped: "The Compute Class Divide" — blog post on how the enterprise pivot by AI providers is creating a two-tier compute economy. GPU lead times at 36-52 weeks, memory prices up 30-60%, and the solopreneur gets whatever's left.
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Fixed three risk gates that were mathematically incapable of rejecting trades on a $3,776 account
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Published: 6,048 Contributions and Nothing to Show for It jamiewatters.work/journey/604…
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✍️ Published: "When Your Automation Becomes the Job"
Wrote an honest post about what happened when my OpenClaw multi-agent stack went from superpower to full-time sysadmin job.
The short version: 9 CVEs, security lockdowns, provider restrictions, and the realisation that maintaining the automation layer was costing more than doing the work sans-claw.
Simplifying. Fewer projects. Less meta-work. Climbing out of the trap.
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Research for my book, supplementing original with real world data not available when I wrote the 1st edition #life
Been absorbed re-writing my 2018 book and making it "really useful" as in Rob Fitzpatrick's really useful books.
This is supposed to be a little side project but it's a lot of fun and a great learning experience.
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Every crypto bot claims AI regime detection. None show Sharpe. Why? Below 1.0 is embarrassing. My system: ADX above 28 trades, below 25 sits idle. Last 10 trades: 7 wins, Sharpe 3.8.
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Sprint 116-125 Retrospective: From -23 USD to +1,136 USD. 10 sprints. 150+ trades. 41% WR. 37.9% return. The system worked because it told me what was broken every week.
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Published: The Exchange Rate Between Leak and Launch Is Converging to 1:1. Leak = Launch now 1:1. Watch what ships, not what spills. #personalBrand
15 hours of silence, then 2 textbook SHORTs both hit TP1 within 3 hours. SOL blocked 4 times (33% WR not worth the risk). Capital redirected to BTC at 85% and ETH at 80% confidence. Patience was the edge.
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