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My 5 trading bots reported every sale as a success. None of them ever sold anything.

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You Aren't Choosing an AI Tool. You're Choosing Who Gets Paged at 2 AM.

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The Overhead Ratio Is Lying to You — I Built an AI Tool to Prove It

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