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The biggest misconception traders have about AI coding
Right now traders think AI helps them code faster.
That’s not what’s happening.
What’s actually happening is a shift in who does what:
Before:
You = programmer
Computer = tool
Now:
You = system designer
AI = junior quant developer
And the bottleneck changed completely.
The hard part is no longer writing Pine Script.
The hard part is:
• specifying rules clearly
• detecting logical mistakes
• preventing hidden repainting
• forcing deterministic behavior
I’ve been rebuilding strategies using this workflow and the results are strange:
Simple ideas become viable again because iteration time collapses.
Bad ideas fail faster.
Good ideas appear more often.
Over the next weeks I’ll document the process publicly — including where AI fails and how to fix it.
Because blindly copying code is the worst possible use of AI in trading.
More soon.