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Hard lessons from months of building with AI — what nobody tells you before you start. AI didn’t make building my quant system easy. It made it possible. Those are different things. Here are the 10 mistakes I made — and kept making — until I learned better. 1. Long Conversations Break Down AI has a memory limit. The longer the conversation, the more it forgets. You think it remembers your system architecture from 30 messages ago. It doesn’t. It starts giving advice that contradicts what it said earlier — and you don’t realize why. ...

From knowing nothing to running a live quant system — the tools that got me there. January 2026. I started building a quant trading system. Couldn’t write a single line of code. My first move wasn’t to learn programming. It was to find an AI that could write it for me. First Stop: A Basic Chatbot I started with a basic Chinese AI assistant. Low barrier, good Chinese, answered everything. I asked how to build a quant system and got a response that sounded complete and logical. ...

Two ways to connect to your Google Cloud VM — the easy way first, then the right way. Most beginners get stuck here. Not because it’s hard. Because nobody explains every step clearly. This guide gives you two paths: start with the easy one, move to the better one when you’re ready. Step 1: Create a Google Cloud Account Go to cloud.google.com. Sign in with your Google account. Click “Start free”. Add a credit card — you won’t be charged immediately. It’s identity verification only. ...