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You make some great points. There's a humanistic quality that can't be replaced. I realized this even more so while self-isolating. For example, instead of goin
by jaylossless 6y ago
You make some great points. There's a humanistic quality that can't be replaced. I realized this even more so while self-isolating. For example, instead of going on TikTok, I decided to build an entire app from scratch. A few of my friends thought it would be a useless app - one "anyone could make." But if I did make it, it should be with severless tech, GraphSQL, AWS amplify, etc.
I decided to just use a $10 Digital Ocean server. With stocks so cheap, my goal was to build an automated trader during COVID-19: https://stockgains.io https://stockgains.io
I initially used Google spreadsheets but it wasn't effective. I spent a week with Docker, learned MySQL 8's new features, and Ruby on Rails 6 for rapid development. There are so many nuances with storage engines, libraries, query and cache optimizations, and UI/UX design that requires human thought, experience, and skill. Sometimes plenty of it. Now the beauty of this tool isn't the price difference of a stock before COVID (a robot could do that), but the filters. These filters were created from a human (me) reading over 100 books on trading stocks and writing down quantitative and psychological parameters. And I kept track of what could be "automated" over the years.
I just can't imagine a robot reading all those books and doing the same thing. Not just the design, but just building a vision. There's an art and complexity involved in solving problems.