I let AI agents write most of a live-trading codebase
I let AI agents write most of a live-trading codebase. Here's the gate that made it safe.Sep 28, 2026 · 16 min readImage credit: AI-generatedFor the last 21 months I have been the only engineer on TopSet, a system that trades real money. It picks a portfolio with machine-learning models, rebalances on a schedule, and executes through live broker APIs on infrastructure I own end to end.
- ▪I let AI agents write most of a live-trading codebase.
- ▪Here's the gate that made it safe.Sep 28, 2026 · 16 min readImage credit: AI-generatedFor the last 21 months I have been the only engineer on TopSet, a system that trades real money.
- ▪It picks a portfolio with machine-learning models, rebalances on a schedule, and executes through live broker APIs on infrastructure I own end to end.
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| Canonical URL | https://redgeoff.com/posts/ai-agents-test-gate/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:34:48 +0000 |
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I let AI agents write most of a live-trading codebase. Here's the gate that made it safe.Sep 28, 2026 · 16 min readImage credit: AI-generatedFor the last 21 months I have been the only engineer on TopSet, a system that trades real money. It picks a portfolio with machine-learning models, rebalances on a schedule, and executes through live broker APIs on infrastructure I own end to end. It is my own capital, not anyone else’s.Agents wrote most of the code. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot. About 1,600 pull requests in those 21 months, which is more than I could have typed in three times the span.That leaves you with a choice everyone adopting these tools runs into. You can read every line the agent produces, in which case you have bought yourself a slower version of writing it yourself.
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