@systematicls

All in @openforage. I thrived in all of the largest hedge funds managing systematic investment processes.

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Engineering As A Search Problem And Why Experts Still Beat Agents

Every so often you will see a post that concludes that "AI cannot be trusted since the result of their optimisation dwarfs the results of my manually handwritten optimisation". The flavor of such a …

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What The New 100x Agentic Engineer Looks Like In The Era Of Fable & GPT 5.6

If you're lucky and are old enough to have been in the era of handwritten code, you will know that there exists the 100x software engineer.

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How To Use Loops In Agentic Engineering To Build The Hardest Products

It is now old news in some circles that loops are pretty much the heart of meaningful agentic engineering.

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The Bitter Lesson Is The Final Competitive Moat

Up until not too long ago, the modal way of preserving a moat in quantitative finance was to operate in absolute secrecy. This was in part because the traditional quant edge was a secret, a signal you…

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My Obsession With Predicting The World

Recent conversations have left me thinking about my motivations, and the driving force behind the hours I put into my work at the expense of nearly everything else.

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How To Stop Losing Money To DeFi Hacks

Building @openforage and reading the myriad hacks of DeFi protocols have put the fear of "state actors" in me. They are sophisticated, well-resourced, and play the extreme long game; super-villains si…

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Quantitative Trading Is Going To Eat All Markets

A lesser-known fact about sysls lore is that I actually started my career in finance as a discretionary trader. I ran an arbitrage book that earned a premium from collapsing commodity spreads between …

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Being Front-Run On DEXes

I've been thinking about executing large portfolios on decentralized exchanges like Hyperliquid.

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How To Build A Quantitative Model For Selecting Start-Ups

Since I was a teenager, I dreamt of a world where we could scan a human, and the scan would reveal everything we needed to know about that person. Their potential, their character, their propensity an…

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Crypto And Humanity's Ceaseless Desire For Progress

Betting on crypto has essentially become representative of a bet that humanity will continue to seek acceleration in our processes. That seems like an easy bet.

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How To Solve Problems Of Long Running, Autonomous Agentic Engineering Workflows

If you want to design a harness for really long-running autonomous systems, you should understand the following deeply.

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How To Build Autonomous Agents That Can Survive And Thrive

There are no real autonomous agents today.

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