@cirsteve
Gave Opus a goal: trade crypto, make $50/day. Pure pragmatism.
Wrong job for an LLM. The naive design puts the model at the end of the pipeline — a nondeterministic component sitting exactly at the point of maximum consequence, the real-money decision.
The fix: model at the front (explore strategy structures), deterministic rails downstream — optimize → backtest → out-of-sample → regime checks → paper → live. No LLM ever authorizes fund movement.
Between the model and the money sits a gate, not a gradient.
https://www.rankonelabs.com/blog/llms_dont_trade