VibeChefField notes by John Hughes Wilcox
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Digital markets

Trading systems, execution mechanics, and post-mortems from running capital on automated infrastructure.

Mostly failure analysis. Markets are the fastest feedback loop I have found for discovering that a system's assumptions were wrong.

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Agent systems

The handoff that never happened

A position closed 55 seconds after it opened. It took me seven hours of logs to work out that it had never really opened at all.

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