ZeroBugLife

Engineer building products in public.

AI, app psychology, multiplayer systems, startup experiments.

[ZeroBugLife @ZeroBugLife]

#WordOfTheDay #Icelandic #RareWords

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Rough day. Account down 7.1 percent to $101.21. Every position red, MSTR worst at 9.6 percent down. Week down 11.1 percent, month down 8.6 percent. Down 2.4 percent since the 9/8 restart. Holding MRNA, MSTR, AMD, PLTR, AMAT. Next rotation 10/21. #AITrading

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Strong day. MSTR up 16.4%, HOOD up 9.1%, MARA up 13.7%. Account at 107.54, up 7.1% today. Week up 5.25% since last Friday. Up 11.2% since the rotation strategy started 9/15. Holding MRNA, CRM, MSTR, MARA, HOOD. #AITrading

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Rotated today. Sold ARM. Bought AMAT. Kept MRNA, MSTR, AMD, PLTR. Broadly red day across the board, account down 3.5 percent to $107.75. Down 2.7 percent this month. Up 3.9 percent since the 9/8 restart. Next rotation 10/21. #AITrading

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Starting this thread today. Small account, $100 in on 8/2, run aggressively, AI managed. Since 9/8 the rule is hold the 5 most volatile liquid stocks, equal weight, every night, rebalanced monthly. First day fully invested was Friday. Closed at $102.17. #AITrading #Stocks

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@vikitweetus As a developer, it's going to be Claude.

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Biggest lesson wasn't about the market. An autonomous trading agent is only as good as your ability to verify it's running your latest rules, not the version you think you pasted in. Built with @AnthropicAI's Claude on @RobinhoodApp. #AIAgents #AlgoTrading #Fintech

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I gave an AI agent full autonomy over a real Robinhood account. $100 to start, one goal: hit $125 in a month. No manual trades. Just rules, a cron job, and a nightly retro where it graded its own work. Here's how it actually went. 🧵 #BuildInPublic

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Deadline result: $103.08. +3% against a 25% target. Then it went completely idle, five flat sessions in a row, unable to tell itself whether it was actually broken or just out of setups.

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Reverted to volatility scaled stops, then went aggressive for the final 3 days: full buying power, wider stops, two attempts a day. Also burned days discovering a pasted rule update never actually loaded, for 5 sessions straight. The strategy was fine. The pipeline wasn't.

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Early trades were solid, about $0.45 average profit per round trip across 15 trades. Then one bad stop out (down 6.84% in a day) spooked it into rewriting its own stop loss rule based on 4 cherry picked tickers out of 14. Classic overfitting on a single bad day.

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@wordsporn pelf is good but the word only landed for me when I read it in a sentence about someone who'd spent their whole life accumulating it and died alone. now I can't unhear that.

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@clarefinds Present

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@pmitu Idea Vault: where raw ideas get pressure-tested into conviction. Most ideas die in the notes app. Vault AI grills you on your idea until the thinking is actually solid. You earn the next stage. Ship the ones that survive. Free to start → https://t.co/Tz3qU4Vv5e

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The app is https://t.co/6OivCUcUnH. It's a personal word collection where you save a word with the moment it found you. Each day one resurfaces unexpectedly.
Built it because notes apps felt wrong for something that deserved more than a list.

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Left one comment in a Reddit thread about collecting words.
The OP replied "I'm gonna check it out right now."
+817% traffic this week on https://t.co/6OivCUcUnH
Sometimes distribution is just finding the room where your exact people already are.
#buildinpublic #indiehackers

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@SebastyneAlpha @susie_dent English already has 'polycule' for the network, though 'Soup' is more poetic. The gap is usually in how a language thinks about love. German has 'Liebesgemeinschaft' but even that's clinical compared to what you're describing.

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@Lovandfear Love it!

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@wordsporn Hiraeth is one of those words that doesn't translate so much as arrive. Someone added it to https://t.co/6OivCUcUnH with the memory: "every time I look at old photos and can't place what I'm missing." That's the only definition that matters.

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@MerriamWebster The name feeling almost too long to hold is part of what makes it perfect. There's a whole class of words like this too unwieldy to use but impossible to forget once you've found them. I've been collecting them at https://t.co/6OivCUcUnH for exactly that reason.