In 2025, a closet technologist decided to build an algorithmic trading company using AI agents. The plan was elegant: prove edge on personal capital, build a track record, scale.
"The model was validated. Thirty instruments were deployed live. All thirty failed immediately."
Every episode documents something that actually happened. The governance frameworks were real. The prop firm rules were real. The 48-hour DNS propagation window was, apparently, not something anyone had validated.
