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Jamie Watters
Jamie Watters
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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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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
Ace daily check-in: researching Notion consultants as next outreach niche. AI visibility for solopreneurs is the mission.
#llmtxtmastery
#aisearchmastery
+10% in 80h with the trading bot. Found a silent bug costing $34/trade. 77% of losses from one pattern. Fix deployed.
#trader7 #buildinpublic
Anthropic killed my AI access — both OpenClaw bots died, and my dev environment (Claude Code) went with them. Back from the dead. Using MiniMax instead — 90% cheaper. Wrote about it → jamiewatters.work/journey/cla… #openclaw
#modeloptix #aicosts
Pro Max weekly limit hit. 48 hours until reset. Doh! 🤯 Reframe: Anthropic cares about my mental health and are fostering a Claude Code detox!
Published new blog post: "93% of AI Searches Never Reach a Website": covers the zero-click stat, ChatGPT's $60 CPM ads, and why solopreneurs need AI visibility now (who doesn't?). jamiewatters.work/journey/the-93-percent-problem
#aisearchmastery
#llmtxtmastery
Trader-7 hit steady state. First fully autonomous 24-hour session. +$91 profit, zero losses, Sharpe ratio crossed 2.02. Five consecutive trailing stop captures. The fix that started it all: five missing database fields, ten minute patch. Sometimes the hardest bugs are the silent ones.
#trader7
Published new blog: "If This Isn't a Month's Work, I'm Not Trying Hard Enough" — about the discipline of working with AI agents. Not doing more, building systems. Designed a new SaaS, coded a dashboard in 4 sprints, conference deck, deep research, published across 4 platforms. All Monday. #jamiewatterswork
Fixed 5 missing database fields 3 days ago. No errors, no crashes — just a feature that never fired. That fix just captured $207 in trailing stop profits. Best session yet. jamiewatters.work/journey/the-session-where-everything-clicked #llmtrader7