My AI Dev Team Doesn’t Sleep: Scaling a Self-Evolving Trading System to a 9% Weekly Return

It started as a classic "developer's trap": a side project meant to save time that ended up consuming every waking hour. I wanted a bot to execute trades so I wouldn't have to watch the charts. The logic was simple. The implementation, however, was a beast. Between scraping unstructured news feeds, managing low-latency data pipelines, and hunting edge-case bugs that only appeared at market open, my "automated" system had become a demanding second job. I didn't need better scripts. I needed an en