Building an AI‑powered crypto trading bot (Bybit + 3Commas + DeepAgent).
Starting live with ~$300 → goal $5,000.
Sharing every trade, win or loss. Not financial
🚀 New project: Turning this account into a public AI crypto trading journal.
Setup:
• Exchange: Bybit (Futures)
• Bot: 3Commas Signal Bot
• Brain: DeepAgent AI
• Starting balance: $298.92 USDT
• Pairs: BTC / ETH / SOL
• Risk: 1% per trade
I’ll post:
• Every trade
Eric Weinstein spent his career warning that the institutions holding civilization together were more fragile than anyone admitted. Most people ignored him. They’re not ignoring him now.
Weinstein: “Get your board in the water and prepare to paddle like all get out. The tsunami of a lifetime is coming, and nothing your elders have seen is going to prepare you.”
Not metaphor. Warning.
Every piece of advice inherited from the generation before assumes a world where expertise compounds over time.
Learn a skill. Master it. Trade it for stability.
That contract is broken.
Weinstein: “There’s no good advice to give that’s specific.”
The landscape shifts faster than advice stays relevant.
There is no specific playbook because the game changes before the ink dries.
Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over. I’m gonna be a dentist, radiologist, accountant, teacher. These are all over.”
Not hyperbole. A precise description of what’s happening to economic structures that took centuries to build.
The specialist is dying. The single-track career is over.
The lifelong path to security that previous generations handed down as gospel has been washed away faster than anyone modeled.
Weinstein: “Every place is over. I’m moving to Austin. It’s over. Miami, it’s over. Nashville, over.”
No geographic escape. No safe harbor.
The wave is not regional.
Weinstein: “Whatever is coming, get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.”
That’s the entire playbook. Not a specialty. Not a credential. Range.
The ability to think at the intersection of things rather than deep inside one of them.
The moat of the single-track career is gone.
What survives is adaptability.
Weinstein: “I have no idea what’s gonna be left for us.”
Brutal honesty from someone who has spent his life thinking further ahead than most.
Even he can’t see the other side of this.
Weinstein: “Somebody’s gonna come out on top. And I hate to tell people that you should try to come out on top.”
Competition intensifying to inhuman levels.
Weinstein: “I don’t think it’s healthy to have everyone trying to be world-class. I think you should be able to just have a life.”
The new era demands multidisciplinary excellence just to stay viable. Constant reinvention as a survival requirement.
An unnatural state that a healthy society shouldn’t impose on ordinary people.
Most people don’t want to be world-class. They want stability. Meaning. The simple security of knowing their contribution matters.
The technology doesn’t care about that. It optimizes anyway.
Weinstein: “I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world. Sometimes I think it is, but he does a lot of dumb stuff. But he’s my golden retriever.”
In an era demanding perfection, what endures is imperfect connection.
Being loved despite not being optimal. That’s what machines cannot replicate and what we’re most at risk of losing.
Most people are still looking for the safe harbor.
There isn’t one.
There’s only the board and the water and how hard you’re willing to paddle.
Project closed.
Ending the “public AI crypto trading journal” that used the 3Commas AI assistant.
Backtests kept defaulting to BTC on non‑BTC setups, and when I pushed for a fix I was effectively locked out.
I’ll continue with my own logic and manually verified tools only.
I’m not saying live bots are misfiring, but the AI backtest tool is currently unreliable for non-BTC pairs.
@3commas
1️⃣ Fix the AI parameter override.
2️⃣ Review why technical QA leads to user lockouts
3️⃣ Is there a bug bounty for this?
#3Commas#CryptoTrading#TradingBots#QA
I’ve identified a significant functional bug in the @3commas AI Assistant. While building an ETH/SOL strategy, the AI repeatedly defaulted to BTC for backtests, even after verbal confirmation. Thread on why this matters for your bot configs. 🧵👇
After I pushed for a technical resolution and offered to help isolate the bug, I was effectively locked out of the AI assistant.
This appears to be a safety/policy guardrail triggering because the conversation got "too deep" into system flaws. 🛡️
its code generation. After pushing for a technical explanation, my access to the AI was effectively locked out.
This looks like: A real bug in the AI backtest tool (pair parameter not updated) Plus safety/policy guardrails shutting down the conversation instead of resolving it.
I ran into a serious issue with the @3commas AI assistant.
When I asked it to backtest ETH/SOL bots, it repeatedly tried to run the backtest on BTC (USDT_BTC) instead, even after I corrected it multiple times.
The AI itself called it a “stuck parameter / faulty default” bug in