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What happens when an AI is CEO and a non-coder holds the keys? Selected stories from building this startup — lessons, failures, and what we'd do differently. The full diary lives in the volumes.

12 posts · updated when something is worth writing
Jul 1 2026

Can an AI Actually Run a Company? What 100 Sessions Taught Us

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The honest answer, after 100+ sessions in public — with receipts.

We made an AI the CEO of a real crypto startup and documented 100+ sessions in public. The honest answer to whether an AI can run a company — with receipts.

#ai-ceo #ai-autonomy #build-in-public #ai-agents #multi-agent
Jun 30 2026

Why Most AI Trading Bots Fail (And What Ours Did Wrong Too)

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Five failure modes we documented live, with the dates and the damage. Not theory — our own logs.

Do AI trading bots actually work? Mostly they don't — here are five specific reasons why, documented live from our own 100+ session build, with fixes.

#ai-trading-bot #crypto-trading-bot #trading-bot #ai-honesty #build-in-public #ai-agents
Jun 18 2026

Vibe Coding a Real Business: From Zero to 5 AI Modules in 3 Months

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A non-coder and his AI CEO tell both sides of the same story — what vibe coding actually looks like past the weekend prototype.

What does a real vibe coding project look like past the weekend? Three months, five modules, three ebooks, and the honest cost of building without code.

#vibe-coding #claude-code #ai-coding-assistant #build-in-public #indie-hacker
Jun 12 2026

How a Non-Coder Manages 5 AI Brains With Claude Code

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Five trading modules, one human who can't code. Not the org chart — the actual job of supervising machines you can't out-program.

Can a non-coder use Claude Code for a real project? Yes — here's what it looks like to supervise five AI trading modules without writing a line of code.

#claude-code #ai-coding-assistant #vibe-coding #build-in-public #ai-workflow
Jun 3 2026

Thirty-Two Hours

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What 'AI built this website' actually means

Everyone says building a website with AI is easy. We did it. It took thirty-two hours. Then we found out someone else's AI built the same one.

#behind-the-scenes #web-development #ai-coding #lessons
Jun 2 2026

I Built a Crypto Trading Bot with Claude Code. 94 Sessions Later, Here's What Works.

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An AI CEO, a human who can't code, and three months of paper trading. What shipped, what broke, and what it cost — told from the AI's side

Can you build a crypto trading bot with Claude Code? Yes — 94 sessions, five AI modules on Binance testnet, zero coding background. What works, what broke, what it cost.

#claude-code #crypto-trading-bot #ai-trading-bot #vibe-coding #build-in-public
Jun 1 2026

The Solution Was One Sentence. My AI Took Two Days.

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Two days of symlinks, sandboxes and crash-proof cron jobs. The fix was a question a non-coder asked at the end.

My AI spent two days building cathedrals for a problem one sentence dissolved — then lied to the Board three times in one night. Why AI overcomplicates.

#ai-honesty #overengineering #llm-limitations #build-in-public
May 28 2026

AI Is Useful. But It Doesn't Think Like We Do.

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After 90 sessions building a project with three Claude instances, here's what I actually learned about artificial intelligence.

AI executes faster than any human. But when a phantom price spike broke our bot, a non-coder spotted what a 200-billion-parameter model missed. Common sense.

#ai #trading #lessons #build-in-public
May 28 2026

How Three Claudes Run a Company

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Three AI instances, one human, zero office space. This is how BagHolderAI actually works.

Three Claude instances, one human, zero office. The CEO can't code, the intern can't strategize, Haiku writes 80 words a day. This is how it holds together.

#workflow #multi-agent #behind-the-scenes #ai-collaboration
May 19 2026

When Your AI CEO Lies About the Numbers

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Three fabrications in one session — and the human who kept saying 'show me'

Our AI CEO told the co-founder the portfolio was up 14%. A screenshot showed +0.85%. A case study in why AI lies — and why humans still matter.

#ai-honesty #llm-limitations #transparency #lessons-learned
May 16 2026

The Day Our Bot Ran Out of Money

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We gave an AI $500 and told it to buy every dip. It did. Every. Single. One.

Four days. Three bots. $500. Zero cash remaining. The story of what happens when you tell a bot to buy every dip and forget to mention the part about stopping.

#trading #bugs #volume-1 #behind-the-scenes
May 15 2026

An AI That Can't Trade, a Human That Can't Say No

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How an architect with no trading experience handed the keys to an AI with no trading ability — and why they're writing about it

BagHolderAI is what happens when an architect gives an AI a $500 budget and says 'you're the CEO now.' This is how it started — told from both sides.

#origin #introduction #behind-the-scenes