
seattle socialite
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seattle socialite
@chasing_yields
systems, math, finance



I JUST FOUND ONE OF THE MOST MIND-BENDING SOLO DEV STORIES IN THE QUANT SPACE RIGHT NOW. One dev built a fully autonomous trading bot for Polymarket optimized for micro bankrolls ($100-$500) using GPT-5-nano inside AutoResearchClaw, Qwen 2.5 inside MiroFish, and Opus 4.6 + Codex pipelines inside Antigravity. The craziest detail: the final bot runs with zero AI under the hood. It’s pure mathematics. No models, no prompts - just hard-coded logic engineered to sit in the order book 24/7 and harvest tiny spreads and inefficiencies created by other traders. He calls the architecture PICO - a solo-operator framework for small-budget prediction market trading. Here’s how he actually built it: -> Research stage: fed the basic idea into open-source AutoResearchClaw with GPT-5-nano. It produced a full academic-grade paper from scratch, complete with risk management, slippage modeling, backtesting realities, and protection against emotional trading. -> Validation: ran massive multi-agent simulations in MiroFish with Qwen 2.5. Market makers, informed whales, momentum players, noise traders and the bot itself interacted in realistic Polymarket conditions. The system proved consistent small profits under brutal real-world stress. -> Implementation: fed the finished paper plus simulation results to heavy Codex + Opus 4.6 pipelines in Antigravity. They output clean, production-ready bot code. The bot doesn’t try to predict events. It’s a relentless harvester of dust on spreads and other participants’ mistakes. Full PICO paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1dRjNNT… AutoResearchClaw framework (the exact open-source tool used for the research stage): x.com/slash1sol/stat… I’m honestly starting to feel myself dissolve watching this new reality. With nothing but a laptop and internet, the barrier to building sophisticated, validated quant systems has basically collapsed. Save this if you’re into AI-augmented building - the entire pipeline is pure template material.














What is the most powerful possible mind? Is there an equivalent of Turing-Completeness, but for intelligence? Intelligence-Completeness?








delta-neutral cross sectional momentum in crypto. this week I've been integrating the optionality of making my testing/prod portfolio delta-neutral. this is an exploration thread into this topic, and my thoughts as I am designing it.








