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Maybe the guidelines should be changed? Something about: don’t complain about comments just because they’re AI.

postflopclarity 5mo ago
I'm not complaining "just" because it's AI. I'm complaining because it's AI, and also slop. > resolves into "cross-venue infrastructure" — which is also a more durable edge than within-venue alpha anybody who actually trades knows that on these markets, "cross venue infrastructure" (aka vibe coding some exchange api integrations) is much less important / durable than actual alpha.
- Retr0id 5mo ago
  Slop aside, do you think it's reasonable to assume a decent fraction of those making consistent profits are arbitrage bots?
  - postflopclarity 5mo ago
    arbitrage is a rather overloaded word that people use for all kinds of strategies but yes, I predict most of the most profitable and consistent accounts are not actually attempting to forecast the outcome of these markets from first principles
- skybrian 5mo ago
  That sounds plausible. Not a trader so I wouldn't know. Saying at least a little about what's actually wrong with it seems more useful than just saying it's slop, which gives me very little info over just a downvote.
  - postflopclarity 5mo ago
    it's pretty easy to write basic trading api connectivity. the hard part is knowing what trades to send even if we are very charitable and assume the comment refers only to like high-engineering-effort infra for trying to be super competitive on latency, that's still like the opposite of a durable edge, since everybody is looking at it. there's very little "hidden" knowledge and it's mostly a matter of elbow grease and careful engineering.
AmblingAvocado 5mo ago
Yes, just like the "don't say HN is becoming reddit" rule. If you think it's AI downvote or flag and move on, reading "this is AI" over and over all over the internet without any substantiation is tiresome.
thazework 5mo ago
no fuck that. We should definitely complain about AI written content, and we should ban anyone who wants to keep people ignorant of time wasting bs comments. As a side note, the AI popularized usage of the word 'clean' to denote proper is physically revolting to me.

I'm not complaining "just" because it's AI. I'm complaining because it's AI, and also slop. > resolves into "cross-venue infrastructure" — which is also a more durable edge than within-venue alpha anybody who actually trades knows that on these markets, "cross venue infrastructure" (aka vibe coding some exchange api integrations) is much less important / durable than actual alpha.

Retr0id 5mo ago
Slop aside, do you think it's reasonable to assume a decent fraction of those making consistent profits are arbitrage bots?
- postflopclarity 5mo ago
  arbitrage is a rather overloaded word that people use for all kinds of strategies but yes, I predict most of the most profitable and consistent accounts are not actually attempting to forecast the outcome of these markets from first principles
skybrian 5mo ago
That sounds plausible. Not a trader so I wouldn't know. Saying at least a little about what's actually wrong with it seems more useful than just saying it's slop, which gives me very little info over just a downvote.
- postflopclarity 5mo ago
  it's pretty easy to write basic trading api connectivity. the hard part is knowing what trades to send even if we are very charitable and assume the comment refers only to like high-engineering-effort infra for trying to be super competitive on latency, that's still like the opposite of a durable edge, since everybody is looking at it. there's very little "hidden" knowledge and it's mostly a matter of elbow grease and careful engineering.

AmblingAvocado 5mo ago

Yes, just like the "don't say HN is becoming reddit" rule. If you think it's AI downvote or flag and move on, reading "this is AI" over and over all over the internet without any substantiation is tiresome.

thazework 5mo ago

no fuck that. We should definitely complain about AI written content, and we should ban anyone who wants to keep people ignorant of time wasting bs comments. As a side note, the AI popularized usage of the word 'clean' to denote proper is physically revolting to me.