LouisSayers

Except some of us consider ourselves to be quite evolved, not religious, AND absent of depression. Maybe depression (or the lack thereof) has nothing to do with religion at all.

Or travel with a diary containing a post-it note labelled "p4sswd"

I find it's a huge boost for my day-to-day work.

If you work on architecture and Claude docs, then you can essentially just have it fill in the gaps. Work then mostly becomes a matter of defining what the next piece of functionality is (which you can also use Claude to help with).

The stuff that used to take days now takes hours. It's not perfect, but if you get your codebase into a good shape then the payoff is huge.

I'm from NZ (mostly european but part Maori heritage) and have had people talk to me in foreign languages, ask me in the supermarket if I'm from Spain (weird), give me random discounts etc.

I also get "you look/feel so familiar" a lot.

Happy to know I'd fit in in a number of places haha

13/18 Maybe growing up in NZ and hanging out a bit with people from different cultures helps.

> I've just watched two major projects fail

This is an opportunity. You can have a good long career consulting/contracting for these types of companies.

It's the type of thing you'd be exposed to in a computer science degree - operating systems / compilers.

Always room to learn in software :)

Why would you shrink the team rather than become 20x more productive as a whole?

I'm at the lower end in the same way that a junior dev is at the lower end of the salary band. This is to be expected for anyone just starting out.

You're assuming that you need privileged information that is not available, but what I'm trading is basically the big player moves - indicated by movement volume in a stock.

You don't need all the info, there are emergent patterns that result for stocks that make big moves over time.

Not every stock that matches one of these patterns will be a winner, but you can base a strategy around this that allows you to have enough success, especially when you combine this with other attributes of the stock (and market conditions) at the particular point in time.

I'm openly aware that so far I'm in the negative. However most of this is due to me not having sold when instructed to (holding onto "favourite" stocks). Very close to break even currently, so no harm done after 6 months playing in the market.

Yes, I might consider doing this but need to consistently feel confident doing it manually first. I did set up a docker instance to connect to my broker, so perhaps a goal for this year!

Yeah, copy paste for non-agentic workflows. I'm keeping things extremely simple.

Exactly, copy paste related code and files. Give it some background ontext on what it is you're doing and then tell it what you'd like it to do.

Statistically speaking, we typically end up with a bell curve right?

So who's on the ends of the bell curve?

I've seen people on tiktok that exclusively trade options. It's not something I've looked into but my take after 6 months is that you basically find an approach that works for you, whether that be trading stocks, commodities, options etc and the time-scale that you trade.

Personally I like to do primarily tech stocks and mix it up doing swing trading (holding multiple days) with a bit of scalping as well (buy / sells over minutes).

At first I lost a lot of money scalping but now I seem to have a much higher success rate - you start to notice certain patterns in the way stocks move if you watch the charts long enough, and I've been learning to have more conviction in my positions.

Yes generally speaking, statistically most people will not beat the index.

Does it follow then that no-one is beating the index consistently?

Of course there are people who are not a statistic. Maybe not everyone is made for it, but that doesn't mean noone is out there beating the market.

Maybe its hard if you're a hedge fund, but I'm talking about individuals with relatively small accounts.