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Grading the Advisors

My bot's architecture (previous post) gives LLMs exactly one daily job: after the deterministic rule engine produces its verdicts, a model writes a short comment and a confidence score per ticker, for me to read. The model in that seat costs money every day. So the natural questi...

The Model That Returned Nothing

While building my quiz pipeline (previous post), the topic-classification stage needed a small local model to read a chunk of documentation and pick one to three tags from a fixed taxonomy of about 80 topics. Straightforward classification, thousands of chunks, running free on an...

Rules Decide, LLMs Advise

When people hear I built a trading bot that uses LLMs, they always ask the same question: "so the AI decides what to buy?"